zoltanlehoczky

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by zoltanlehoczky 7y ago
Yes, FPGA "threads" much like CPU threads can contain complex logic, and different from each other.
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by zoltanlehoczky 7y ago
And regarding Nexys: now we actually support Microsoft Catapult FPGAs as well and working on others too. It's quite challenging to add support for each of them, since as I'm sure you're aware, HLD is nowhere near as portable,
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by zoltanlehoczky 7y ago
I agree with the tooling issue. One of the reason we started Hastlayer was the viewpoint that "I'm a .NET developer with Visual Studio and everything else. Why would I want to use this thing created by Xilinx/Altera (Intel)?&
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by zoltanlehoczky 7y ago
The transformation is surely a solvable problem given that various HLS tools, OpenCL for FPGAs and Hastlayer exist :). Whether it makes sense is another question and I don't pretend to have the definitive answer, though I believe it do
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by zoltanlehoczky 7y ago
The approach here is to use FPGAs as compute accelerators, much like GPGPUs, and in somewhat similar use-cases. I.e. if you have an embarrassingly parallel compute-bound algorithm then it might make sense to offload it to FPGAs to gain perf
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by zoltanlehoczky 7y ago
Yes, it's converting .NET code to run on FPGAs by creating an equivalent hardware design to the logic contained in the .NET code. And yes, it's all about parallelization. As the docs also say, this only makes sense if your algorit
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by zoltanlehoczky 9y ago
Is that project still active?
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Turning software into computer chips – Hastlayer (.NET Conf)
2 points by zoltanlehoczky 9y ago|2 comments