Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:24:45 06/30/98
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On June 30, 1998 at 10:47:26, Dezhi Zhao wrote: > >On June 29, 1998 at 18:57:34, David Fotland wrote: > >> >>Field programmable gate arrays range from 40,000 gates at $3 to over 500K >>gates with 270K bits of RAM, and can clock up to 80 Mhz. This is at least >>as dense and fast as the Deep Blue chips. See www.xilinx.com for example. >> >>It would be easy to put together a PCI card with one of these chips on it. >>Chess developers would then all have access to similar hardare >>technology as Deep Blue. If someone designed the basic hardware eval >>and search blocks, it would be easy for someone with a software background >>to modify the evaluation function and reprogram the FPGA. >> >>I did a short search and didn't find anyone already selling an FPGA PCI >>evaluation card, but there may be one. We may even be able to convince >>an FPGA vendor to design the PCI card for the publicity. If not I could >>do it, or anyone with a little bit of hardware background. >> >>Anyone interested in using or buying such a card? With a little volume >>the card would be inexpensive. Perhaps $25 since it just a small PC board, >>a cheap connector, and the FPGA chip (which would also be the PCI interface). >> >>David Fotland > >It seems to me a great idea. I just visited www.xilinx.com. Could you >specify a particular page in it for me to start with? If it could be around >$25, >your idea would certainly feasible. With the PCI card, commercial programmers >can get rid of dangles. >I had no FPGA experience. I got a question to hardware experts here: >How difficult to implement it? > >Best Regards > >Dezhi Zhao not hard. this is *exactly* how the original 160K nodes per second Belle was built... Note that it makes modification a process of throwing out the old and burning the new...
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