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>Although, FPGAs could supplant some hardware. But wouldn't you want the FPGAs to be open source, too?
by x220 8y ago
>Although, FPGAs could supplant some hardware.
But wouldn't you want the FPGAs to be open source, too?
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoOh, indeed! What I'm saying is that if hardware was FPGA, we could reprogram with recompiled/resysnthesized FPGA code and upload with better-trusted code (think of binary reproducibility). We still have to deal with 'trusting the compiler(synthesizer)' but with iceStorm, we're a good way there. It's still ugly around the edges, but I think this is one of the better ways forward in creating a fully supported FPGA platform (thinking the difference in microprocessor dev prior and after GCC inclusion of Atmels).