[mikewarot]

BitGrid - a systolic array of 4x4 bit Look Up Tables and latches.

Like Faraday's first electric motor, it'll have no practical use, at first. If I'm right, it'll be somewhat useful in reducing the power consumption of AI and let us ride Moore's law for a few more decades.

[ThePhysicist]

I find this interesting, I saw a couple of other comments by you on this. Do you have a blog article or paper about this architecture?

[mikewarot]

Blog: http://Bitgrid.blogspot.com

The guts of an FPGA are a lot of D-flip-flops in chains, that shift in the bitstream, and then send control signals to LUTs, switching fabric, etc. What I propose is to remove most of the switching fabric, so that every cell is identical, and add latching to every cell's output, to eliminate timing (especially race conditions) as a concern.

Every cell only has short connections to neighbors, so the capacitance of high speed lines that cause such grief in large VLSI designs is mostly removed (you do still need to clock those latches, so those would take some good drive signal).