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   by jsgray 10y ago

   The board used (VCU118) is $7000. As noted the Digilent Arty is $99 and hosts up to 32 cores. The XC7020 Zynq devices should host 80. That includes the Zedboard, the original Parallella kickstarter ed., the forthcoming Snickerdoodle Black (
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   by jsgray 10y ago

   I wish it were so. While it is straightforward to do regular placement at the block level or even at the individual LUT/slice level using RPMs (relationally placed macros) or absolute LOC placement of LUTs in the XDC implementation con
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   by jsgray 10y ago

   This build took 11 hours on an Intel Skulltrail NUC w/ 32 GB DRAM, but I believe there are ways to speed this up going forwards (incremental and/or hierarchical builds, out of context synthesis). For example, the XCVI9P is a 3 die