Author: Keith Evans
Date: 15:06:48 04/10/02
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On April 10, 2002 at 15:49:04, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On April 09, 2002 at 13:19:04, Keith Evans wrote: > >>I'm not one of those guys wanting to put a general purpose CPU into an FPGA >>however. Would have been fun to do back in college though. > >I was thinking about FPGAs that are pin-compatible with the Athlon or Pentium 4 >so they could be on the same bus, obviating the need for PCI trips. > >-Tom There was a company called Nuron (bought by Intel) which made an SDRAM DIMM containing not only SDRAM but also a large Virtex part. (As far as I know they figured out a way to accelerate public key encryption using their architecture thus caught Intel's attention - nice for servers.) It's kind of an interesting idea because you could switch control of the SDRAM itself between the x86 and the FPGA, so you could pass a lot of data back and forth. Maybe something like this is what you had in mind? I don't know anything about the latest x86 processor busses. It is a good idea to move off of PCI - the question is what to use instead that's available in consumer class PC's. Or what to use that's within your price range. Regards, Keith
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