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@InProceedings{CookPeel99,
  title =        "{O}ccam on {F}ield {P}rogrammable {G}ate {A}rrays - {S}teps towards the {P}ara-{PC}",
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  author=        "Cook,  Barry M. and Peel,  Roger M. A.",
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  editor=        "Cook,  Barry M.",
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  pages =        "211--228",
  booktitle=     "{P}roceedings of {W}o{TUG}-22: {A}rchitectures, {L}anguages and {T}echniques for {C}oncurrent {S}ystems",
  isbn=          "90 5199 480 X",
  year=          "1999",
  month=         "mar",
  abstract=      "At the April 1998 WoTUG conference (WoTUG-21), it was
     reported that ST Microelectronics was ceasing production of
     most of the transputer family and its associated serial link
     components. The possibility of WoTUG members producing
     transputer-like devices to emulate many of the transputer\'s
     parallel processing and communication concepts was aired.
     The authors left this meeting with the challenge of
     designing and implementing their own transputer, preferably
     to be built in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices
     rather than custom or semi-custom silicon, for ease of
     prototyping and for flexibility of modification and
     re-use.\&amp;lt;/p\&amp;gt;\&amp;lt;p\&amp;gt;
One year
     later, this paper outlines the progress that has been made.
     Rather than just producing processor logic using the
     standard logic design methods, the authors have written a
     compiler that translates occam into a number of output
     formats that can be fed to various logic implementation
     packages. Occam programs may, however, be joined to logic
     modules designed in a conventional fashion, using
     synchronised channels in the usual manner. In addition to
     the DS-Link interface that was announced by 4-Links at
     WoTUG-21, an OS-Link module has been designed by the
     authors, and both of these may provide external
     communication interfaces between occam-based hardware and
     the outside
     world.\&amp;lt;/p\&amp;gt;\&amp;lt;p\&amp;gt;
Although in
     their early stages, this paper illustrates several designs
     that show how occam may be used to specify small processors
     suitable for mapping onto FPGAs. It also shows how occam is
     an ideal fast prototyping mechanism for peripheral
     interfaces that connect to INMOS Links. "
}