Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 00:31:00 10/17/02
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On October 16, 2002 at 18:01:17, Russell Reagan wrote: >On October 16, 2002 at 15:37:33, Slater Wold wrote: > >>33Mhz chip. > >33 MHz PC? 33 MHz FPGA? Clearly I know nothing about how FPGAs work, especially >in combination with a pc :) An FPGA is basically a reprogrammable chip. It's a PCI plugin card. >>It's running on a normal PC. >>The eval, search, and move ordering (AFAIK) is done in HW. Which means >>they are done in zero time. > >So...it uses FPGAs along with the pc? How does that work? Sounds very >interesting. I've always wondered how you would rig up FPGAs to work with your >PC. AFAIK, Brutus does the first few ply in software, then hands off the terminal positions to the FPGA. If I remember well, the speed was limited by the PCI bus. -- GCP
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