On 1/6/2010 4:21 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > John Thornton wrote: > >> The 5i23 will not gain you anything for use with EMC. >> > There is currently nothing to be gained by using the 5i23 over the 5i20, > but there are two possible future advantages that may become real some > time. One is that the 5i23 has a 400 Kgate FPGA (vs the 200 Kgate FPGA > on the 5i20), the other is that the 5i23's PCI chipset can support DMA. > > There are currently no hostmot2 firmwares that don't fit in 200 Kgates, > and the EMC2 hostmot2 driver does not currently use DMA. But who knows > that 2010 will bring? > > >
OK Seb, if it was your money and you were going to buy the board set to use for the next few years, which one would you buy? :-) How close is the existing FPGA program to running out of the 200K gate space?? Does adding DMA make sense? Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
