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"I really want an open source billion transistor FPGA running at 1 GHz that doesn’t hold my hand with a bunch of proprietary middleware" Yeah, and I want a pon
by al2o3cr 12y ago
"I really want an open source billion transistor FPGA running at 1 GHz that doesn’t hold my hand with a bunch of proprietary middleware"
Yeah, and I want a pony. The pony just happens to be about 10000x more likely in terms of capital expense.
I look forward to the Kickstarter to raise the $10 million+ needed just to spin a mask set for this chip, not to mention the licensing costs for EDA tools that can do routing + signal integrity on this scale.
- jacquesm 12y agoAnd then it still won't deliver on the intended range of applications. An open source FPGA won't magically do what a closed source one can't, there is a fundamental impedance mismatch here between thinking about what an FPGA could do versus what it actually does.