System and Method for Independent, Direct and Parallel Communication Among Multiple Field Programmable Gate Arrays

A system comprising:

• a PCIe communication network comprising a PCIe switch and a plurality of PCIe communication lines;
• a host computing system coupled to the PCIe communication network;
• a nonblocking crossbar switch;
• a plurality of memory circuits;
• and
• a plurality of field programmable gate arrays, each field programmable gate array coupled to the PCIe communication network, to the nonblocking crossbar switch, and to at least one memory circuit of the plurality of memory circuits, each field programmable gate array configurable for a plurality of data transfers to and from the host computing system and any other field programmable gate array of the plurality of field programmable gate arrays, each data transfer including a designation of a first memory address and a stream number.

A system comprising:

• a PCIe communication network comprising a PCIe switch and a plurality of PCIe communication lines;
• a host computing system coupled to the PCIe communication network;
• a first field programmable gate array configurable as a nonblocking crossbar switch;
• a plurality of memory circuits;
• and
• a plurality of second field programmable gate arrays, each second field programmable gate array coupled to the PCIe communication network, to the first field programmable gate array configurable as a nonblocking crossbar switch, and to at least one memory circuit of the plurality of memory circuits, each second field programmable gate array configurable for a plurality of data transfers to and from the host computing system and any other second field programmable gate array of the plurality of second field programmable gate arrays, each data transfer including a designation of a first memory address, a file size, and a stream number.