Many FPGAs come equipped with multiple processor cores on chip. Some models of the Xilinx Virtex 5 (yes, they spelled it wrong) include 2 PowerPC cores. Some FPGAs might have as much as 4.
I wonder if anyone has taken these existing FPGAs and tried to do something similar to what you are suggesting. I know these FPGAs are typically used to implement DSP logic, but it would be interesting to see if anyone has tightly coupled the FPGA fabric with the on-board processors for more general processing applications.
I wonder if anyone has taken these existing FPGAs and tried to do something similar to what you are suggesting. I know these FPGAs are typically used to implement DSP logic, but it would be interesting to see if anyone has tightly coupled the FPGA fabric with the on-board processors for more general processing applications.