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2. The Dual-FPGA daughter board.

The reconfigurable computer consists of the motherboard and up to five daughterboards (with application-speicifc components) that attach directly to the motherboard.  The motherboard provides much of the "infrastructure" (e.g., clocks and interface circuitry) that would be useful for the numerous applications contained on the daughter boards.

Because of this modular architecture, the Tanner EPD reconfigurable computer is significantly more cost-effective than traditional reconfigurable computers. Such modularity allows the NRE necessary to develop the motherboard to be amortized over a wide variety of applications. Moreover, it minimizes the risk of vagaries in the COTS FPGA market; if a component is discontinued, alternate components may be substituted by designing only a new daughtercard instead of redesigning a significant part of the system.