Exploring Many-Core Design Templates for FPGAs and ASICs

Table 1

A-core counts, for all design points, and a naming convention for all MARC configurations used in the study. If only one core count is listed, it is the same for both 32 and 37 node (32n and 37n) problems (see Section 7). All A-core counts are given for area normalized designs, as discussed in Section 7.

Alias	Description	Number of cores (32n, 37n)
Hand design FPGA	—	48
Hand design ASIC	—	2624, 2923
MARC-Ropt-F	RISC A-core with optimized network on FPGA	36
MARC-C1-F	Customized A-core on FPGA	36
MARC-C2-F	Customized A-core (2-way MT) on FPGA	36
MARC-C4-F	Customized A-core (4-way MT) on FPGA	36
MARC-Ropt-A	RISC A-core with optimized network on ASIC	1269, 1158
MARC-C1-A	Customized A-core on ASIC	1782, 1571
MARC-C2-A	Customized A-core (2-way MT) on ASIC	1768, 1561
MARC-C4-A	Customized A-core (4-way MT) on ASIC	1715, 1519
GPGPU	—	512