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Speed. Reconfiguring an FPGA is a very slow process, and FPGA's can't match the clock speeds of conventional ASICs. That may change in the near future with FPGA
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
Speed. Reconfiguring an FPGA is a very slow process, and FPGA's can't match the clock speeds of conventional ASICs. That may change in the near future with FPGA-like devices built using memristors, which potentially could be reconfigurable at the speed of writing RAM and run at the same clock speeds as any ASIC.
- p1esk 13y agoActually, modern FPGA are "capable of dynamically reconfiguring at multi-GHz rates": https://www.tabula.com/technology/technology.php https://www.tabula.com/technology/technology.php
- InclinedPlane 13y agoThat's marketing hype. If you reconfigure just one gate it can be extremely fast, but typical FPGAs take a significant fraction of a whole second to reconfigure. Though they are getting faster over time.
- p1esk 13y agoDid you even read how their chips work?