begin quoting David Brown as of Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:06:56PM -0800: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:54:45PM -0800, SJS wrote: > > >Is there an FPGA big enough to emulate Sun's open-sourced Niagra core? > > It'll fit fine in something like a Xilinx Virtex 5. Of course, if you're > spending $3,000 on just the FPGA, you're probably better off just buying a > really fast computer.
And running a simulator? Are FPGAs really that slow? > The large FPGAs are really useful for simulating an asic during > development, and for very specialized types of applications. Being able to > wire up 192 single-clock multipliers has certain uses. I would think that an open-source hardware geek might like to play with open-sourced hardware designs. And $3k isn't that much. I thought it would be $30k. -- We should all start off with drum-memory computers: Inertia and angular momentum discourages looters. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
