Adaptive-computing platform yields flexible hardware control.(leading edge)(Brief Article)

EDN, February, 2004 by Moretti, Gabe

QUICKSILVER HAS INTRODUCED its first product in the adaptive-computing market. This technology allows designers to dynamically modify the hardware architecture of a device, depending on the functions a device requires at a given time. This technology gives designers the flexibility of choosing which applications it will execute at a given time and the ability to do so with the additional speed of dedicated hardware, instead of software.

The QuickSilver Adapt2000 ACM (adaptive-computing-machine) combines both products and business arrangements. Part of the introduction, the Adapt2400 IC, offers four hardware primitives that you can arrange and duplicate in a number of ways to implement the equivalent of reprogrammable, reconfigurable ASIC. The primitives, or...

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