Author: Dezhi Zhao
Date: 11:19:37 06/30/98
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On June 30, 1998 at 13:24:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Dr. Hyatt: Oh, one has to buy a special burning device. How much speedup can I expect from the card? A ballpark number is OK for me. My program currently search around 100K nps. Can I reach 1M with the card? Thanks Dezhi Zhao
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