DPGA Prototype Documents

Dynamically Programmable Gate Arrays combine features from SIMD arrays and FPGAs to realize a fine-grained computational array where each array element's behavior can vary both spatially and temporally. DPGAs allow us to dynamically adapt the computational substrate to application requirements.

• Dynamically Programmable Gate Arrays: A Step Toward Increased Computational Density (FPD '96) -- On the area efficiency of DPGAs -- good introducution to benefits / slightly more tutorial than other papers [PS] [HTML] [Slides]

• DPGA Prototype Description (FPD '95) -- Succinct highlights [PS] [HTML] [Slides]

• DPGA Utilization and Application (FPGA'96) -- Usage styles for multicontext FPGAs along with basic insight into where these devices are most beneficial [FPGA'96 PS] [HTML] [TR PS] [Slides]

• Unifying FPGAs and SIMD Arrays (FPGA '94) -- Original paper introducing DPGAs [PS] [HTML] [Slides]

• DPGA Prototype Details -- TR with greater details on the prototype [HTML]

• Notes on Context Distribution -- Informal TR with details on DPGA context distribution [HTML]

• Notes on Programmable Interconnect -- TR discussing programmable interconnect with a focus on DPGAs [HTML]

• Entropy, Counting, and Programmable Interconnect (FPGA'96) -- Encoding of FPGA/DPGA programmable bitstreams and its impact on area, speed, performance [FPGA'96 PS][HTML] [TR PS] [Slides]

• Dynamic Reinvention -- Stan Baker on the DPGA [text]

• Reconfigurable Architectures for General-Purpose Computing -- Chapters 10 and 11 of this thesis tell the DPGA story pretty comprehensively in context [abstract and pointers]