Design decision in the implementation of a raw architecture workstation

In this thesis, I trace the design decisions that we have made along the journey to creating the first Raw architecture prototype. I describe the emergence of extroverted computing, and the consequences of the billion transistor era. I detail how the architecture was born from our experience with FPGA computing. I familiarize the reader with Raw by summarizing the programmer’s viewpoint of the current design. I motivate our decision to build a prototype. I explain the design decisions we made in the implementation of the static and dynamic networks, the tile processor, the switch processor, and the prototype systems. I finalize by showing some results that were generated by our compiler and run on our simulator. Thesis Supervisor: Anant Agarwal Title: Professor, Laboratory for Computer Science