Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:38:56 04/09/03
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On April 09, 2003 at 17:21:18, Slater Wold wrote: >On April 09, 2003 at 16:34:23, Keith Evans wrote: > >>I couldn't seem to email you at the address in your profile. > >I moved/got married in the last few months. A lot has changed. A whole lot. > >I will correct it asap. > >>I wanted to ask if you were still pursuing that FPGA project, or potentially >>would be if you had a knowledgable hardware guy to help out with the hardware >>side of things. > >I actually did a LOT of studying for about 6 months on FPGAs and HDL. However I >would never claim to know a whole lot, probably not even enough to make a >legal-moving chess engine. > >But that's not what stopped me. Money did. Not only are the FPGAs expensive, >but the software is just outrageous. Without a college/university connection, I >just couldn't find a way to do it. it is very cheap. like $3000 for development board. another $2000 for 0.5mln gates and $10k or so for a verilog compiler. compared with hardware asic design this is very cheap of course. >And one thing about me is, if I can't do it right, I won't do it. > >If you are offering your services (I know you have some connections), that would >for sure probably be enough to spark enough interest to get this going again.
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