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How will multicore, nanotechnology, and other performance-boosting chip design methodologies impact DRC’s approach?

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How will multicore, nanotechnology, and other performance-boosting chip design methodologies impact DRC’s approach?

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There are two different issues here. Multicore is an architecture that addresses parallel processing, but it is still serial in terms of how it executes a given stream. With a FPGA or RPU, you can execute functions in a much more parallelized way than with a dual or quad core processor. Nanotechnology is a fundamental semiconductor process technology used for creating a physical structure for storing or manipulating a single bit of information. It used to be that the driver for any new semiconductor process was the memory device because it has the simplest architectural structure and is therefore the easiest thing to debug. Most of the structures inside a FPGA are memory structures. So FPGAs are now a process driver. New technologies such as nanotechnology will actually drive FPGA growth even faster.

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