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Why would an FPGA-based computer be ruled out as an option?
by moring 5y ago
Why would an FPGA-based computer be ruled out as an option?
- Tabular-Iceberg 5y agoEverything VLSI is going to be pretty opaque. Is there at least an FPGA with a completely open bitstream specification yet?
- 70rd 5y agoThey're working on it for the Xilinx 7-series. https://symbiflow.github.io/ https://symbiflow.github.io/
- AndresNavarro 5y agoActually more than one, and new projects are started everyday to RE more architectures as we gathertools and knowledge from previous efforts. While the newer higher end fpgas are still out of reach a Lattice ECP5 can do pciE, gigabit ethernet, hdmi, ddr3, usb3, and of course has more than enough for a RISC-V (as a matter of fact you can fo one in a much cheaper/smaller ice40: https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32 https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32
- kjs3 5y agoIf you're going down this route, an FPGA can have a whole opaque processor embedded in it (usually an ARM) that theoretically is doing things you don't know about.