Author: Slater Wold
Date: 08:14:15 02/19/02
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On February 19, 2002 at 10:43:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... That's a little more than disappointing.
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