The PipeRench Reconfigurable Computing Project is a project from the
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
intended to improve
reconfigurable computing
Reconfigurable computing is a computer architecture combining some of the flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware by processing with very flexible high speed computing fabrics like FPGA, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA ...
systems. It aims to allow
hardware virtualization
Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the functionality required to run various operating systems. Virtualization hides the physic ...
through high-speed reconfiguration, in order to minimize resource constraints in
FPGA
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturinghence the term ''Field-programmability, field-programmable''. The FPGA configuration is generally specifi ...
s and similar systems.
The project has already succeeded in manufacturing a chip and testing it. PipeRench has been licensed by a start-up—Rappor
and is the basis of their
Kilocore
Kilocore was a high-performance, low-power multi-core microprocessor that has 1,025 cores designed by Rapport Inc. and IBM and announced in 2006. Rapport was a California fabless semiconductor company founded in 2001 and dissolved in 2009.
Kilo ...
chip.
External links
PipeRench official site
Reconfigurable computing