The Rise of Reconfigurable Systems Nick Tredennick Gilder Technology Report The 2003 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA’03) June 23, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada
This year’s transistors are just twice the size of a virus
Performance rises with Moore’s law and the demand spreads with time. Soon performance is good enough for most users
Fixed-cost amortization now dominates the cost of processing a wafer
Normalized by transistor cost and the value transistor
Adoption rates are falling for new semiconductor processes
Programmable Metallization Cell memory (PMCm)
PLD and ASIC cost cross-over point
PLD and ASIC cost cross-over points (dots) with time