What is FPGA?
An FPGA, or Field Programmable Gate Array, is an "integrated circuit able to change interconnectivity of a large number of fundamental computing components via configuration information stored in onboard static RAM.” At a high level, FPGAs offer massive parallelism, have a high GFLOPs potential, and their technology curve exceeds Moore's Law. FPGAs offer application-specific acceleration. They can be (re)programmed at the factory or (as the name implies) in the field at a customer site. They are essentially specialized functional units that solve a specific problem, and are typically implemented as an algorithm-specific compute device – as a coprocessor to a conventional CPU motherboard.
FusionFP featuring XtremeData FPGA-based In-Socket Accelerators™
Western Scientific introduces a fully integrated FPGA co-processor based system in the FusionFP. Systems come installed with XtremeData FPGA-based In-Socket Accelerators™. With these co-processing accelerators, an increase in speed, density, bandwidth can be achieved while lowering power consumption and cost per gate.
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