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Subject: Re: FPGAs playing chess--an expert opinion

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 03:36:26 12/18/99

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On December 17, 1999 at 02:37:24, David Blackman wrote:
>Get one of those chips that have CPU + ROM + RAM + FPGA all on the one chip.

There's a project similar to this going on at CMU right now. Some students are
running TSCP on a microcontroller attached to an FPGA, and they're using the
FPGA to accelerate the move generator and the evaluation function.

They haven't gotten to a point in the project where they can measure speedup due
to the FPGA. One of the students told me that the FPGA will definitely speed up
TSCP running on the microcontroller, but he wasn't very optimistic about an FPGA
speeding up a fast, modern processor.

I've been toying with the idea of doing something like this for my own senior
design project...

-Tom



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