Author: Slater Wold
Date: 00:39:17 02/19/02
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On February 19, 2002 at 03:11:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 18, 2002 at 23:04:21, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>In reading the Deep Blue post below, I was curious how exactly they program >>hardware to perform certain actions. Is it similair to the way that they make a >>CPU with certain instructions that it can execute? Is this something that the >>common person can experiment with, or do you have to be IBM (or other big >>computer company) to play around with stuff like that? Seems interesting to me. >>I'd like to know more about it. > >If you take a course in digital logic, you can learn how to do this stuff. The >de facto standard textbook is Contemporary Logic Design by Katz. You can >experiment with it by using logic simulation software or by buying an FPGA >(Field Programmable Gate Array = programmable logic) prototyping board. You can >use software-programming-like languages (VHDL or Verilog) to design logic but >you really need to understand how to do it by hand before you use them. > >-Tom Good stuff Tom. Thanks. I once heard Hsu mention something about a "shogi chip". What is that? Search for it on the internet, and all you'll get is stuff about video games. Hsu's exact quote was: "The only chance that you would ever see the chess chip commercialized would be if someday I decide to build a shogi chip."
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