Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: parallel@netcom.com (B. Mitchell Loebel)
Subject: The PARALLEL Processing Connection - February Meeting Notice
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: 13 Feb 1996 14:02:19 GMT
Message-ID: <4fq5lb$bv6@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

February 12th - Dynamically Run-Time Reconfigurable FPGA's

At our upcoming meeting Dr. John Gray, Director of Development at 
Xilinx Development Corporation in Scotland will tell us about an 
exciting new run time reconfigurable device that his team developed. 
Their 6200 family of FPGA's supports partial reconfiguration in run 
time!  And quickly - in the order of 100's of microseconds for 15K to 
25K gates. Thus, one portion of the device may be undergoing 
reconfiguration at the same time that the remainder of the device is 
operating as a co-processor in conjunction with the main CPU. Clock 
speeds of 25 MHz now and 40-50 MHz within a year.

Although PPC's members have been interested in run time 
reconfigurable hardware for some time now, the inability of software 
engineers to map their experience into the hardware domain has been a 
stumbling block; Dr. Gray is well equipped to help our people get 
through that paradigm shift and his presentation will certainly deal with 
the issue. There is a significant business opportunity available for PPC 
members to collaboratively build and market a library of high 
performance algorithms using this hardware; find out more at our 
February 12th meeting.

The main meeting starts promptly at 7:30PM at Sun Microsystems at 
901 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto. This is just off the southbound San 
Antonio exit of 101.  Northbound travelers also exit at San Antonio and 
take the overpass to the other side of 101.  A discussion of member 
projects currently underway and other issues of interest to entrepreneurs 
follows immediately thereafter at 9PM.

Please be prompt; as usual, we expect a large attendance; don't be left 
out or left standing. There is a $10 fee for non-members and members 
will be admitted free.  Yearly membership fee is $50.
-- 
B. Mitchell Loebel                                      parallel@netcom.com 
Director - Strategic Alliances and Partnering                  408 732-9869 
PARALLEL Processing Connection