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Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays

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foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> writes:
> When laying it out any nodes that needed to be wires just used the
> code for the dataflow template instantiated with IN and OUT ports
> specified by its placement.  The dataflow code was generated and
> the instantiated IN and OUT on each node was generated by placement.
>
> The idea was the this simple approach worked for 5, 10, or 10,000
> nodes quite easily.  Doing 5 or 10 nodes manually is easy but
> doing 10,000 or 100,000 nodes individually one by one would not
> be very productive.

Thanks, maybe one issue is that I haven't seen your tools in action, so
I have to just go by the chip data sheet.  Do your tools have manuals
online?  If yes, I haven't seen them.

An example of what I'm asking: suppose you want to implement a 4Kbyte
lookup table in ram.  With 2 bytes per word that takes 32 nodes, with no
ram space left for holding code.  So if you have a 4*8 block of nodes
for the ram, how do you get data out of the interior ones?  Can a code
word written to an exterior node (on one edge) route all the way to the
other side of the block somehow?  Is there around 5ns delay for each
node that the data has to traverse?

I also wonder if there's a way to 1) asynchronously check whether input
is available on a port; 2) listen to all 4 ports simultaneously and
sleep until input appears on one of them (like "select" in unix).

> You plop in a mult-threaded TCP server if you have one in the
> library just like on a PC. 

That is pretty impressive with just 64 words of ram...

>> Are you saying colorforth has this stuff now? 
> Did you read the paper explaining it? 

Probably not--which paper? 

> No. I was saying that VentureForth was designed for drag and drop
> programmers who want to plop things in from a library

Oh I see, I didn't realize that.  

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More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-09 10:44 -0700
  Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@GreenArrayChips.com> - 2011-04-09 17:53 -0700
    Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-10 14:53 -0700
      Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@greenarraychips.com> - 2011-04-11 10:18 -0700
  Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2011-04-11 14:44 -0700
    Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2011-04-11 17:11 -0700
      Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-11 21:41 -0700
        Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-12 00:06 -0700
          Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-12 06:22 -0700
            Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Charley Shattuck <cshattuck@surewest.net> - 2011-04-17 21:11 +0000
              Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 14:53 -0700
              Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-19 21:13 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-20 17:42 +0000
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-23 04:03 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-04-23 23:10 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-25 09:00 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 17:10 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-05-01 10:37 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-02 00:14 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-05-02 08:20 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-03 21:26 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@greenarraychips.com> - 2011-05-07 20:11 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@greenarraychips.com> - 2011-05-08 22:35 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-09 08:11 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-26 11:22 +0000
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-05-01 10:05 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-02 12:01 +0000
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-05-02 07:51 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@greenarraychips.com> - 2011-05-08 22:23 -0700
              Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-27 23:17 -0700
            Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-17 20:41 -0700
              Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 21:38 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-19 22:20 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-20 00:56 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-20 23:02 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 10:32 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-04-22 22:06 +0200
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-23 18:42 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2011-04-23 12:17 +0100
          Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-26 11:03 +0000

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