The design of RPM
Koray Öner, Luiz André Barroso, Sasan Iman, Jaeheon Jeong, Krishnan Ramamurthy, Michel Dubois · 1995
Recent advances in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and programmable interconnects have made it possible to build efficient hardware emulation engines. In addition, improvements in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools, mainly in synthesis tools, greatly simplify the design of large circuits. The RPM (Rapid Prototype Engine for Multiprocessors) Project leverages these two technological advances. Its goal is to develop a common hardware platform for the emulation of multiprocessor systems with different architectures.