FPGA's are getting cheaper. A friend of mine got a nice Spartan III
for less than us$50
Clock speeds are still behind the usual ASIC (lack of sleep might
alter my grammar habilities), but I think they are ok for things like
a java vm, or a nes emulator...
Years ago I made a picoJava based processor and it was really fun...
All we need is to put that into a PCI thing and enjoy (And it would
even be better if you can program the thing dynamically from your pc
as needed)
I also believe I've seen some SUN workstations that do have a "pci"
processor to emulate an x86 machine...
Blah... I really need to sleeep.
I hate PHP.
On 6/13/08, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
>
>
> > IMHO a virtualizable processor is the necessary first step as
> >
>
>
> And don't forget the cost of a virtualizer v. the cost of actual hardware.
> Verilog is free, but the device to make it is not. Start simple:
>
> void
> main(int, char *[])
> {
> while(readbyte()){
> parseinst();
> doinst();
> }
> exits(nerrs ? "error" : 0);
> }
>
>
>
>
