Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:43:15 02/19/02
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On February 19, 2002 at 03:39:17, Slater Wold wrote: >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." \ It is another game...
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