Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 12:41:31 04/03/02
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On April 03, 2002 at 11:44:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Again this depends on the FPGA you are looking at. DB processors ran at >20-24mhz, and searched at 2M-2.4M nodes per second each. Hsu later reported >that at least a factor of 15 speed-up would be possible with newer fab >processes. He predicted 36M for .18u as a first guess... Uhhhh, are you clear on what an FPGA is? DB had absolutely nothing to do with FPGAs in any way, shape, or form. You're comparing a motorcycle to a paddle boat, and I'm not even sure what conclusions you're trying to draw from that comparison. >They've been around forever in various forms. Look up Ken's paper on >Belle. Or his paper "An FPGA based move generator for the game of Chess" >or any of several other publications including the second edition of >"Chess skill in man and machine." > >Belle used them in 1980, for certain. I don't know how long they had been >out by then... The way I remember it, Belle was a mess of PALs and TTLs. If you just meant that Belle used programmable logic, then yeah, I'll buy that. PALs have been around forever. -Tom
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