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I don't know how much competition they're giving Xilinx, but Altera is doing the same thing with the same high performance ARM core: http://www.altera.com/devic
by hga 12y ago
I don't know how much competition they're giving Xilinx, but Altera is doing the same thing with the same high performance ARM core: http://www.altera.com/devices/processor/soc-fpga/overview/proc-soc-fpga.html http://www.altera.com/devices/processor/soc-fpga/overview/pr... As the fine article notes, Intel is now doing some fabbing for Altera.
I've gotten the impression that putting a general purpose CPU in the corner of an FPGA was a pretty standard thing.
One of the things that should differentiate this new effort from Intel is FPGA "direct access to the Xeon cache hierachy and system memory" per "general manager of Intel's data center group, Diane Bryant".
- rthomas6 12y agoDirect cache access sounds cool, but I'm sort of under the impression that Altera and Intel are playing catchup with the FPGA SoC idea. I believe Xilinx was the first mover by a large margin, though I could be wrong. That doesn't mean Xilinx's Zynq will always be the best product, but it is already for sale right now, is an established product, and works well.
- blackguardx 12y agoFPGAs with CPU cores have been around for over a decade. The difference is that in the past, the industry has mostly focused on the PowerPC core. Now that ARM has such tremendous popularity, it makes sense to focus on it.
- rjsw 12y agoIt made sense for Xilinx to use PowerPC in the past, the chips were being fabbed by IBM.