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I meant more in spirit. What is an FPGA more than a very small computing device (logical function block) next to a memory (configuration of said function block)
by jacobush 9y ago
I meant more in spirit. What is an FPGA more than a very small computing device (logical function block) next to a memory (configuration of said function block)?
- jacquesm 9y agoThe configuration part of an FPGA is not at all like normal memory, it is much more like a flash device, and one that can't be as easily reconfigured as that due to the internal structure of the FPGA. It is more akin to a series of fuses that you can blow to create a circuit than memory, and if it were to be seen as memory it would be (P)ROM rather than RAM. In order to make a part of the FPGA work as memory you'd have to use some of that capacity to use the logical function blocks to emulate the memory.
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- jacobush 9y agoIndeed. Now imagine, what people already tried years ago on FPGA, rewriting the memory configuration in a machine learning, or evolution fashion. But with RAM instead of flash (-like) memory the iterations could go much, much faster.