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Subject: Re: Attention - Slater Wold

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 16:02:51 04/09/03

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On April 09, 2003 at 18:53:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:


>Don't they all need to get shipped by me a hardware card each time?
>
>Is there *any* way i can update them by email a new version?

Depends on the card. Some PCI cards are configured right over the PCI bus. Many
people are using compact flash now for standalone boards. So yes - email would
work.

>That's one speed part. second speed part is how many Mhz can we clock these
>things?

Depends on the design - can't tell you now. Yes the parts get faster over time
for multiple reasons. More routing, better process,...

>So it needs like 4 years to get the FPGA to double in speed. Then each 'compile'
>takes hours and hours and hours. Even a very fast machine with a lot of RAM
>isn't speeding up synthesizing.

A 2.8 GHz Xeon can synthesize, place and route a design pretty quickly - within
hours. (Trust me - I've been there done that.) Definitely worth the money to
upgrade your computer for this.

>However you lose a lot because of not being capable of using hashtables and the
>move ordering is a lot more poor than in software of course.

You can of course use hashtables. Nothing to prevent that. I don't understand
why people say this. Just because nobody did it yet?

Anyway part of this would just be for experimentation. Exploring alternatives to
the boring Von Neuman approach man!

Regards,
Keith



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