but cheaper when you make 10M of them. ;-) Pros\cons to each, just depends on what is right for the application.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 9:48:07 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video FPGAs can be reprogrammed. And they, in theory, can do everything an ASIC can do. But ASICs are not able to be changed (at least they could not when I was working with them, that has been a few years ago). From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video Painting ASICs as an old, failed approach and FPGAs as the future seems a little strange. From: That One Guy Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 9:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzAkMGKT5_M I feel like there might be some koolaid here somewhere -- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
