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Subject: Re: HW based Crafty (search for leong01pilchard.pdf)

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 15:43:27 04/10/02

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On April 10, 2002 at 18:06:48, Keith Evans wrote:

>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

I found a paper describing a similar set-up:

Search for "leong01pilchard.pdf" on google



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