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registers, and is a crude estimate of the amount of silicon area
required in a VLSI design.
6. Conclusions
Agora has a number of characteristics that make it particularly
suitable for the development of complex systems in a multiprocessor
environment. These include:
•the complexity of parallel processing can be hidden by building
"reusable" custom environments that guide a user in describing,
debugging and running an application without getting involved in
parallel programming;
-computations can be expressed in different languages;
-the structure of a system can be modified while the system is
running ...