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 Super vector processor 
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I've been toying with the idea of developing a superscalar vector processor capable of executing multiple vector instructions at the same time. I estimate it would take only about 15 million gates for a vector length 64. (I took the FT64 200k gates and multiplied by 64x as much hardware). I don’t know how practical it would be. The clock cycle time might be really slow.
One application would be a spreadsheet like app with 64 independent lanes across horizontally across a grid.

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Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:06 am
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So, that would surely be a multi-FPGA design?


Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:42 pm
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It may be possible in a single FPGA chip. I found a 15 million gate device but not inexpensive and no free tools. Maybe time to try and crowdfund my "hobby" :) I suppose I could do a proof of concept version with only 4 lanes (1/16 the size) and hopefully make the number of lanes a core parameter.

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Parameters are good!


Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:15 pm
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