{"id":53,"date":"2011-01-20T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T12:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T13:27:12","slug":"fpga-as-a-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/fpga-as-a-processor\/","title":{"rendered":"FPGA as a processor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an article about some research being done on University of Glasgow. Researchers placed\/programmed (more than) 1000-cores on an\u00a0<acronym title=\"Field Programmable Gate Array\">FPGA<\/acronym> (<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Fpga\" target=\"_new\">about FPGA<\/a>). Each core is supposed to have each own dedicated memory (it is not a technical article, so not many technical details were given). According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The researchers then used the chip to process an algorithm which is central to the MPEG movie format \u2013 used in YouTube videos \u2013  at a speed of five gigabytes per second: around 20 times faster than current top-end desktop computers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/news\/headline_183814_en.html\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an article about some research being done on University of Glasgow. Researchers placed\/programmed (more than) 1000-cores on an\u00a0FPGA (about FPGA). Each core is supposed to have each own dedicated memory (it is not a technical article, so not many technical details were given). According to the article: The researchers then used the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[12,13],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ouW6-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trigonakis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}