Teramac-configurable custom computing
Rick Amerson, R.J. Carter, W. Bruce Culbertson, Philip J. Kuekes, Gregory L. Snider · 2002
The Teramac configurable hardware system can execute synchronous logic designs of up to one million gates at rates up to 1 megahertz. A fully configured Teramac includes half a gigabyte of RAM and hardware support for large multiported register files. The system has been built from custom FPGA's packaged in large multichip modules (MCMs). A large custom circuit (/spl sim/1,000,000 gates) may be compiled onto the hardware in approximately 2 hours, without user intervention. The system is being used to explore the potential of custom computing machinery (CCM).