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Which tools are Windows only? I have developed for FPGAs from all major vendors exclusively on Linux. But closed source expensive tools are a problem.
by kristoffer 12y ago
Which tools are Windows only? I have developed for FPGAs from all major vendors exclusively on Linux.
But closed source expensive tools are a problem.
- jjoonathan 12y agoAnd expensive hardware. Last time I ran the back-of-the-envelope numbers (admittedly 2-3 years ago) they weren't competitive with GPUs on price/flops and price/iops. Three caveats: 1. I used DigiKey prices from the largest bulk tier. Presumably if you're actually ordering that much you can get them right from the supplier for cheaper. 2. Latency! You can make it almost arbitrarily low on FPGAs. 3. Direct interface with the hardware. I'd love to see a real cost/benefit analysis by someone with skin in the game because mine was pretty simplistic.
- Florin_Andrei 12y ago> Last time I ran the back-of-the-envelope numbers (admittedly 2-3 years ago) they weren't competitive with GPUs on price/flops and price/iops. To me, that sounds more like the problem was not a good fit for FPGA hardware. I'm just speculating, though.
- jjoonathan 12y agoYes, that's exactly what I'm saying. FPGAs simply weren't competitive for applications that were limited by sheer floating-point/integer throughput. It's not that they weren't good for a single very narrow application, they weren't good for a very broad swath of compute-intensive applications. That explains the low adoption rates.