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Yeah FPGAs sound nice but I seriously doubt that will ever happen where performance and power are major concerns. I'm not sure that just having the hardware de
by andromeduck 11y ago
Yeah FPGAs sound nice but I seriously doubt that will ever happen where performance and power are major concerns.
I'm not sure that just having the hardware design makes much of a difference either as it'd be the equivalent of shipping a binary blob then making the source available without the compiler used or a way to decompile because the tools required are so expensive.
In CPU land have ARM which is probably as close as we can practically get to open source but IMO the real problem is still verification of the shipped product and without third parties auditing the design I'm not sure we could ever be sure source or not.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agothe real problem is still verification of the shipped product In that vein, there is a lot about a modern FPGA that's a "binary blob". Do you fully trust Xilinx? Do you fully trust Altera? Do you continue to trust Altera now that they are a subsidiary of Intel? If so, why don't you just trust Intel directly? Perhaps it's turtles all the way down? :)