You may recall that the folks at
Tabula have developed an innovative FPGA architecture that they refer to as
ABAX 3PLDs. The idea is that they use a small piece of silicon that they reconfigure eight times for each user clock beat. This is why Tabula refer to their architecture as being “3D.” As opposed to using a third physical dimension, however, in this case the ‘z’ axis is time.
The end result is that this fabric can achieve the same capacity as a regular FPGA with only 1/3 of the silicon ... or we can use the same amount of silicon as the regular FPGA to achieve a much higher capacity (
Click Here to see a more detailed column on this architecture).
Personally, I expect great things from Tabula, so I was delighted to hear that their ABAX 3PLD architecture has won a prestigious 2012 Edison Award; the official announcement is as follows:
The Edison Awards, celebrating 25 years of honoring the best in innovation and excellence in the development of new products and services, announced that Tabula’s ABAX 3PLD was voted a Silver Edison Award winner in the Electronics and Computers category. At the sold-out April 26th event in NYC, Steve Teig, CTO and founder of Tabula, joined hundreds of senior executives from some of the world's most recognized companies to acknowledge the hard work and commitment of all of the 2012 Edison Award winners.
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