Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors

David Patterson

Arvind

Krste Asanovic

Derek Chiou

James C Hoe

Christos Kozyrakis Stanford

Shih-Lien Lu

Mark Oskin

Jan Rabaey

John Wawrzynek

IEEE Hot Chips Symposium, 2006


Abstract

RAMP is an open-source, community-developed, FPGA-based emulator for parallel architectures. This Hot Chips presentation describes the project’s motivation, shared design framework, reusable hardware and software modules, and reference systems intended to accelerate multidisciplinary research in multiprocessor architecture and software.