[FRIAM] Introducing Robert Mykland

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Hello Robert,welcome,
> We have several generations of hardware simulations, a 
> prototype compiler, and we will complete our first production C compiler 
> within the next few months.  If people are interested, I'm happy to send out a more detailed description of our work.
It sounds very interesting, please do!
> Since our compiler turns an unbounded stream of tiny instructions (the 
> output of a conventional software compiler) into an unbounded stream of 
> finite hardware circuits (the output of our compiler), it seems to me 
> that the opportunities to optimize the code produced by this compiler 
> are pretty much infinite, so there's a complex problem for you.  I 
> expect I will have questions about some of these optimizations that 
> folks on this list could shed some light on.
>   
The advantage over a FPGA is that it can reprogram much faster?
> For these last seven years my team and I have been working on a 
> revolutionary new general purpose computer processor architecture that 
> is hundreds of times faster than today's general purpose computer 
> architectures.  
>   
So there are 128 l6 bit logic units running at 250 Mhz?  That sounds 
like it should be peak about 10 times faster than say a 3.2 Ghz CPU on 
similar serial operations, or maybe about the same as a Cell running on 
all SPUs?

Thanks!

Marcus