Chuck Moore has been pretty clear that he didn't come up with this as a replacement for x86 or ARM CPU:s. The way he talks about it is closer to what you hear a

Chuck Moore has been pretty clear that he didn't come up with this as a replacement for x86 or ARM CPU:s. The way he talks about it is closer to what you hear among permacomputing folks, it's a platform for relatively fast general computation in low-energy settings. I've never implemented a gaussian blur on bitmaps with a FPGA, maybe it is simpler somehow than this example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwM0qfQqmdE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwM0qfQqmdE