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Re:Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp by 0xcde4c3db on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:49PM (#14009079)
Also note that "speed" includes latency, and not just low latency but also deterministic. You can do things like adjust a timestamp or tweak a control equation knowing that a sample has been delayed through an N-stage pipeline/filter that advances at M hertz.
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Re:Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp by pdelbarba on Friday March 31, 2017 @07:10PM (#14009231)
Yea, I misspoke there. %s/speed/latency/

Certain industries (esp nuclear) really like them because they can "prove" the set of attainable states in the FPGA.

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