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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:41:02 12/19/99

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On December 18, 1999 at 06:36:26, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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.

how many times a second can they communicate between PII cpu and
the FPGA. Do they use PCI or AGP?


>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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