Author: Slater Wold
Date: 11:58:35 04/10/03
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On April 10, 2003 at 13:30:39, Keith Evans wrote: >On April 10, 2003 at 09:22:59, Marc Boulé wrote: > >>>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. >> >>I would also like to see such a project get started, even though I might not be >>able to contribute much time to it. >> >>It's good to hear from you guys again, >> >>Marc > >Hey Marc, > >I hadn't done anything because I didn't want to shell out for a board, and I was >pretty busy working on a chip. It was the software prices that turned me off. Someone called me after I downloaded a demo of their software, and was trying to sale me this software for $15k. After I told him my plans, they told me they could work out a 'time-share' program, for about $9k a year. The saddest part is, that without this software the chess program would effectively run like crap. That kinda did it in for me. >But a friend just gave me a couple of development boards, plus this stuff at >work became available after our chip architecture grew and we had to stuff some >new boards with bigger FPGAs, thus making the older ones obsolete. > >Maybe I should synthesize your movegen as-is and see how well it fits into a >XC2V4000 part. I think that you used XCV800 in your work right? So we have a >40/8 = 5X increase in gates by the part numbers alone, plus additional Virtex II >features which should help improve routing... > >I have to tell you that I work only in Verilog, so I would create a new move >generator in Verilog eventually :-) > >Keith
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