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Re:On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (1996) by fithisux on Monday November 16, 2015 @08:47AM (#10574354)
It is a good idea as long as a. An openly standardized direct-to-PC bus is used b. An openly standardized interface to co-processor is used (not utilizing blobs). c. Possibly a transparent to user mixing of CPU and special instructions.
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Re:On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (1996) by hamiltonkibbe on Monday November 16, 2015 @11:02AM (#10575120)
Both Xilinx and Altera are using ARM AXI protocol for the FPGA-CPU interface in their current SoCs.
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