RAMP: Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors
IEEE Micro, 2007
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2007.39
Abstract
The RAMP project’s goal is to enable the intensive, multidisciplinary innovation needed to address parallel processing. RAMP is an open-source, community-developed, FPGA-based emulator of parallel architectures whose design framework lets researchers develop and contribute reusable, composable modules. Three complete designs for transactional memory, distributed systems, and distributed shared memory demonstrate the platform’s potential.