Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:43:11 02/17/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 11:39:09, Keith Evans wrote: >On February 17, 2004 at 05:52:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On February 17, 2004 at 00:31:56, Keith Evans wrote: >> >>>On February 16, 2004 at 11:37:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>>On February 15, 2004 at 15:14:16, Slater Wold wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> The cards, about $500 a piece. >>>> >>>>$3000 a card at least. >>>> >>>>Hydra gets sponsored by a FPGA company called Xilinx. >>>> >>> >>>When I recently looked at price quotes for an XC2V1000 part which is apparently >>>what Chrilly uses I see that you can get some speed grades for under $200 now. >> >>Chrilly needs development boards in each computer and add to that a chip with a >>million programmable gates. 60000 gates is really too little ;) > >Vincent - do you have any idea what a XC2V1000 is? Hint it's more advanced than >a XCV1000E. Xilinx refers to it as a 1M "system gate" part. (You have to use a >lot of the RAM for this gate count to make sense.) > >In the past Chrily said - "In Brutus I use the somewhat outdated XiLinx-Virtex-I >V1000E." (I think that Chrilly got the part number a little incorrect.) > >Anyways I actually used to design printed circuit boards, so you're not talking >to a complete idiot when it comes to PCBs. I was also the one that told you that >it was possible to implement killer moves in hardware when you said that it was >impossible. Now you backpedal and mention how it costs an extra clock or >something. And you are surprised by this behavior??? :) It happens _all_ the time...
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