BitGrid - brilliant, or waste of time??

Wherein Mike Warot describes a novel approach to computing which follows George Gilders call to waste transistors.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Spreadsheet iteration and other linguistic hits

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I continue to search for ideas that are close to the BitGrid, and I've come across Amir Hersch's mention of the need for a "spr...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Reconfigurable Systolic Array

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I've been searching, and searching, and searching for anything that matches the Bitgrid in architecture... and I've found nothing......
Friday, July 09, 2010

Prior art - non found... and I've got a headache

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Every single article I checked trying to find a pure LUT based FPGA had some sort of routing fabric in it. I can't find anything that ...
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Learning about chip design

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I really need to find out how much power a BitGrid cell will consume, in order to find out how well it could realistically deliver on the Ex...
Sunday, July 04, 2010

What's required for Exascale

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I've been watching the google results for the key word "Exascale"... and found this at the bottom of this article about bioinf...
Thursday, July 01, 2010

SimGrid - Up and running

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I managed to get a Grid Simulation working.... here is a screenshot of it. I named it SimGrid, and it works in conjunction with Sim01 as a p...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Unrolling programs instead of loops

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A programming trick that used to work was to unroll loops, to prevent the pipeline penalties that occur when you branch. It worked well for ...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Introducing Sim02

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Now that Sim01 is capable of demonstrating how a single cell works in terms of bits, it's time to start building a grid simulator. This...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Introducing Bitgrid-Sim version 0.03

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I've created a basic simulator for 1 cell of a bitgrid. The simulator currently is a Windows only application, but it's should be fa...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Beyond the Petaflop - How Bitgrid could meet DARPA's needs ahead of schedule.

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I found this story about a new DARPA request for proposals via Digg . The challenge is to build a computer system which can process 10^18 ...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Enabling technology on its way from HP

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HP has continued to make progress on their Memristors, and this latest advance which allows them to be put into large arrays would be perf...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

HRSA - Close, but no cigar

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I came across this PowerPoint about HRSA: High-Speed, Hierarchical Synchronous Reconfigurable Array which is part of the BRASS Pro...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Instruction Systolic Array

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The BitGrid is based on the idea of data flowing through a grid of instructions. The logical inverse of this situation is to have the data r...
Friday, July 18, 2008

BitGrid - A minimalist systolic array

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Sometimes the key to everything is to find the right words... the right words to explain a concept, the right words to feed into a search en...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Logisim

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Earlier this week I found Carl Burch 's wonderful Logisim which does digital logic simulation. It took a few hours of tweaking, and one...
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Friday, February 24, 2006

Signs of life

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I ran into Joshua, who might be able to help me get a chip made! He's been through chip design, and is a EE at heart. I laid out what I ...
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Thursday, March 17, 2005

BitGrid in 25 words or less

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Get bit from each neighbor concatenated 4 bit number becomes index One lookup table per neighbor
Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Bitgrid pro and con - AKA the Thesis

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If the Bitgrid is such a great idea, why haven’t I heard of it before? One word answer: “Efficiency” My review of the current...
Friday, March 11, 2005

Why we need a Free Hardware Foundation

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We have the Free Software Foundation as a result of Richard Stallmans irritation with closed source software. I propose a parallel organizat...
Thursday, March 10, 2005

The bitgrid story

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The Von Neuman architecture - Our current standard It all started with the realization that most of the transistors in a modern computer are...
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