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Just wanted to add that many FPGAs physically support updating parts of their configuration without turning off or stopping the rest of the chip. This is just v
by diamondman 11y ago
Just wanted to add that many FPGAs physically support updating parts of their configuration without turning off or stopping the rest of the chip. This is just very hard to do without the docs we need of the chips, and almost no one does it.
- kyboren 11y ago> ... almost no one does it. I've heard an anecdote that Altera kept getting pestered by customers asking why they don't have it--"but why not? Xilinx has it!". So they implemented it just so they could say, "We have it too!". It shut them up, and since no non-academics actually use PR (that I'm aware of; I'd love to hear counterexamples), they've promptly ignored it again :).