On 08/01/2011 08:49, Sean Breheny wrote:
> Interesting...I wish they had said which FPGA they used. I'm used to
> working with smaller ones (equivalent to maybe 100k gates) where even
> a single simple microcontroller "core" would take up something like
> 1/4 of the FPGA.

I wondered which FGPA too - the fact they did not mention it stood out=20
for me, I reckon it was probably one of the latest offerings (xM gates)=20
and likely well over =A33000 per unit (the price of a 2M gate FPGA on=20
Mouser is  ~=A34000 GBP) Might have made the story a little less=20
"exciting" to mention this kind of thing.. :-)
To do some (very) simple (and rough) math, the smallest core I have used=20
takes around 30k gates (I think) Say even if this was reduced to 10k,=20
then 10k * 1000 =3D 10M gates. Even with lots of clever resource sharing=20
it would hard to achieve less than say 5M gates, plus all the onboard=20
RAM each core needs which is mentioned. Quite probable it could be some=20
(as yet not on the market) technology in excess of =A310k.
Certainly interesting though, and the above technology will not be that=20
expensive for too long, would like to know a bit more.

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