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There are a few niches where FPGA make sense, but for things like DSP they naturally parallelize ops well. The LCMXO3D-9400HC-B-EVN demo board from Lattice can
by Joel_Mckay 4y ago
There are a few niches where FPGA make sense, but for things like DSP they naturally parallelize ops well.
The LCMXO3D-9400HC-B-EVN demo board from Lattice can still be found for $60, and Verilog is the most common dialect to learn.
If you are from the sequential CPU/MCU world, than expect to see some very different paradigms. The language define a logic circuit where states propagate in parallel (within physical limits)... latch-up avoidance and clock domain crossing must be handled properly.
If you are good with hardware, there is also the $20 EBAZ4205 (Xilinx ZYNQ 7Z010 fpga has a cpu that runs 32bit linux) since the crash of various crypto currency trends.
T[p: the next generation of Desktop CPUs are supposed to include configurable logic similar to current ZYNQ chips. We shall see what this means when the other boot drops... Good luck... =)
- rowanG077 4y agoDo you have any information on the next gen of desktop CPUs including configurable logic? I'm in the FPGA space and have never heard of it.
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoI would recommend watching the TechTechPotato youtube channel interviews. They cover a lot of domain specific hardware. ;)
- NCC1701DEngage 4y agoYou aware of the AnandTech channel and their podcast? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Qjj9Jpww3iQarwt8HOcDw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Qjj9Jpww3iQarwt8HOcDw I could give you a list of channels that do similar content to TechTechPotato.
- rowanG077 4y agoI searched for FPGA in his videos but nothing came up. Could you link me the relevant video? I'm interested in it!
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoSorry I can't help you more, but if I recall correctly it was in a summery at the end of an interview with one of the major players. Likely AMD or TSMC related given Intel/Apple/Qualcomm is more secretive about future products, and I seem to vaguely remember something about ML accelerators and chiplets internal bus bandwidths as some of the subjects. However, as I tend to binge watch the episodes once in awhile, and the set never notably changes much... it is difficult for me to narrow down when the episode was published. Good luck. =)