Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 11:02:42 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 12:30:55, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >A friend of mine works for HP, designing the PA microprocessors. I asked him if >it was possible to put the Deep Blue chip design (or something comparable) on an >FPGA. Here's his response: > >======================================================================== [snip] >Therefore, in my opinion as a professional microprocessor designer, >the thought of realizing a modern complex processor using an FPGA >device shows a good deal of naiveté. > >Steve Wells Unfortunately, you asked him the wrong question. The FPGAs were not intended to replace the PowerPC chips used in DB, they were to replace the custom chips that did chess search and evaluation. You could ask your friend if he thought that today's FPGAs could replace a moderately complex ASIC of three years ago.
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