begin quoting Gus Wirth as of Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:14:39PM -0800: [snip] > The challenge you are looking for is to build your own CPU. This can be > done without having to develop shadowmasks and worrying about quantum > effects by using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) such as those > sold by Xilinx or Altera. The FPGA is programmed in a high level > language (well, high level compared to laying out transistors) such that > you work with either individual gates or blocks that perform some > function. Take a look at Open Cores <http://www.opencores.org> to see > some of the things that can be done.
Is there an FPGA big enough to emulate Sun's open-sourced Niagra core? -- Not a hardware geek, nor should I be But I admire 'em (from afar) for free. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
