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Article #757Re: What are Simulator/Hardware accelerators ?
From: Mark Zwolinski
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:23
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:23
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In article <1993Jan18.013801.22802@netcom.com>, hage@netcom.com (Carl Hage) writes: >patel@key.amdahl.com (Chandresh Patel) writes: [stuff deleted] > >There is now a third type of machine, such as produced by Quickturn and >PiE Design Systems, which convert a netlist into a set of partitioned FPGA >gate level circuits, then download the circuits into a set of Xilinx (or >equivalent) FPGAs mounted on boards with programmable and observable >interconnect. The FPGA circuit becomes a breadboard equivalent for >the actual hardware, and might run only a few times slower than the actual >hardware being simulated. Do you (or indeed, anyone else) have any information on these systems? If so, please post or mail to me. Thanks Dr Mark Zwolinski mz@ecs.soton.ac.uk Department of Electronics and Computer Science Tel. (0703) 593528 University of Southampton Fax. (0703) 593045 Southampton SO9 5NH, UK
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!sot-ecs!MZ@SATURN From: mz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Zwolinski) Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad Subject: Re: What are Simulator/Hardware accelerators ? Message-ID: <00966FE9.331E8660@SATURN> Date: 22 Jan 93 13:23:08 GMT References: <3981@key.COM>,<1993Jan18.013801.22802@netcom.com> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Reply-To: mz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Zwolinski) Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: saturn