Xputers
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wrongroadmap
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anti-machine
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flowware
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data.streams
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KressArray
Xputers
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Auto-sequencing memory (asM) |
Generic Address Generator (GAG) |
Reinvent Computing
Note the
amateurish introduction of the Systolic Array. The Xputer results from the
generalization of the sytolic array.
When we developped the anti-machine
paradigm as the counterpart of the von Neumann computer, we have been looking
for a prefix to replace "com" within the word "computer". Not
yet having a good
idea (do you have one?) we replaced "com" by "x" yielding "xputer".
The term "Xputer" does not mean "transputer",
which was a von Neumann machine, whereas the Xputer is
not - it is an anti-machine.
Why a different computing machine paradigm? It is the massive inefficiency of
the von Neumann paradigm. UC Berkeley professor C. V. "RAM" Ramamoorthy coined
the term "von Neumann
Syndrome" (also see
here) when
opening the discussion after listening to a keynote speech by Prof. Reiner Hartenstein.
Well known about this is "Nathan's
Law" saying, that software is a gas which completely fills all available
storage space. Also see
here and
here.
Literature
Reiner Hartenstein: Xputers and their relations to H/S Codesign; internal report,
Univ. Kaiserslautern, Sep 1994 -
http://www.fpl.uni-kl.de//papers/paper_Xp.pdf (achievements survey)
R. W. Hartenstein, M. Riedmuller, K. Schmitt, M.
Weber: A Novel ASIC Design Approach Based on a New Machine Paradigm; Special
Issue of IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, July 1991 -
http://xputer.de/IEEE_JSSC91.pdf
R. W. Hartenstein, K. Schmidt, H. Reinig, M.
Weber: A Novel Compilation Technique for a Machine Paradigm Based on
Field-Programmable Logic; Proc. FPL 1991, Oxford, UK -
http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-039.pdf
R.W. Hartenstein, A.G. Hirschbiel, M.Weber: A Novel
Paradigm of Parallel Computation and its Use to Implement Simple High
Performance Hardware; InfoJapan'90- International Conference memorating the
30th Anniversary of the Computer Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 1990 -
http://xputer.de/Xputer_InfoJapan_1990_31ps.pdf
R. Hartenstein, A.
Hirschbiel, K. Schmidt, M. Weber: A Novel Paradigm of Parallel Computation and
its Use to Implement Simple High-Performance-HW; Future Generation Computer
Systems 7 91/92, p. 181-198, North Holland (invited reprint of Paper 31) -
http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-042.pdf
R.W. Hartenstein, A.G. Hirschbiel, M.
Riedmueller, K. Schmidt, M.Weber: A High Performance Machine Paradigm Based on
Auto-Sequencing Data Memory; HICSS-24, Hawaii Int. Conference on System
Sciences, Koloa Hawaii, 1991 - Second Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
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http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-036.pdf |
http://hartenstein.de/anti-machine/asM-Koloa-1991.pdf
R.W. Hartenstein, A.G. Hirschbiel, M.
Riedmuller, K. Schmidt, M.Weber: Automatic Synthesis of Cheap Hardware
Accelerators for Signal Processing and Image Preprocessing; 12. DAGM-Symposium
Mustererkennung, Oberkochen-Aalen, 1990
Best
Paper and Best Presentation Award (DM 1000.--) - Speaker: Michael
Weber -
http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-029.pdf
R.W. Hartenstein,
A.G. Hirschbiel, M.Weber: The Machine Paradigm of Xputers and its Application
to Digital Signal Processing Acceleration; 1990 Int. Conference on Parallel
Processing, St. Charles, Illinois , 1990 -
http://xputer.de/Xputer-paper-027.ps |
http://hartenstein.de/anti-machine/Reiner-StCharles1990.pdf

Reiner W. Hartenstein: A decade of reconfigurable computing: a visionary
retrospective;
Conference: Design, Automation, and Test in Europe - DATE, 2001
downloadable
Christophe Bobda: Introduction to Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures;
Springer Verlag, 2007
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