Hi Jan-erik!

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Jan-erik S=F6derholm (QAC) wrote:

> A couple of Swedish guys are doing this.
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> Read more : http://www.mitrion.com/technology.shtml

-Adam's comments were essentially corrrect, "It wouldn't do well for
desktops, as people like to run several different programs at once, and
the task switching of re-configuring the fpga for each task would kill th=
e
performance gain, even if you had enough room to put 3-4 programs on the
FPGA at once."

As I was reading that I was thinking of exactly the kind of things that
the Mitrion page described. The intention is more of an 'application on a
chip' thing. Yes, it takes a while to reprogram so can't flip between
various apps very quickly within a given chip. But an accountant for
instance doesn't do that, he has a set of specific apps and that's all
that he uses. Maybe a plugin board with half a dozen FPGAs for different
apps. One each for PIC compiler, simulator, and board layout. Instead of
running programs all the PC CPU does is supervise the FPGAs and manage
I/O.

Have a :) day!

jb

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jim barchuk
jb@jbarchuk.com

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