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Somewhat tangential, but the open hardware laptop that bunny and xobs are designing has a built-in FPGA, so you aren't the only person who thinks it would be ni
by 8_hours_ago 13y ago
Somewhat tangential, but the open hardware laptop that bunny and xobs are designing has a built-in FPGA, so you aren't the only person who thinks it would be nifty to have one. Personally, I think it'd be lots of fun to hack with and would open up a lot of interesting projects (perhaps a port of the 2048 game to an FPGA??).
http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
- revelation 13y agoThey don't have that FPGA to offload the CPU, I think its rather to interface with external components. GPUs don't come with external IO and for a lot of high-speed buses you are just dead in the water without an FPGA to handle the delicate timing. That is really the unique benefit of FPGAs: the implicit parallelism makes them a really great fit for the kind of high-speed bit banging that would be impossible to get right on a normal CPU (not to mention very difficult to program in the first place).