The idea of reconfiguration is not new. What is Tabula doing that is different?
Tabula differs in at least two important ways. One, Tabula’s ABAX device is reconfiguring thousands of times faster than anybody before them. But that is not the most important difference. Much more important is why we reconfigure and how the customer leverages that reconfiguration. To Tabula, reconfiguration is a technique to solve the interconnect problem which makes FPGAs costly and limits their performance. Tabula also completely hides reconfiguration from the user. Tabula does not present their device as a reconfigurable device even though that’s what’s happening under the covers. From a user point of view, it’s a 3D device and we emulate that 3D device perfectly. No matter what you do as a user, you can’t tell the difference between the Tabula device and a 3D device. In that sense, Tabula is using reconfiguration as a trick and not presenting it as a user feature. Making this possible necessitated years of innovation and of product development efforts. We are now at the point whe
