Intel Gears Up for FPGA Push

Re:Intel Gears Up for FPGA Push by fulafel on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:57AM (#15390477)

I thought FPGAs had a limited number of updates, enough to preclude this level of dynamism?

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Re:Intel Gears Up for FPGA Push by sannee on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:00AM (#15390481)

Not really. FPGAs tend to be accompanied by a flash memory storing the firmware, which of course has limited erase cycles, but you can also upload the firmware through other means.

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Re:Intel Gears Up for FPGA Push by blackguardx on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:18AM (#15390541)

The configuration is held in SRAM cells in most FPGAs. Like the other commentor states, the SRAM can be loaded in different ways, some of which have write cycle limitations.

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Re:Intel Gears Up for FPGA Push by rightos on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @09:09AM (#15392116)

Most are loaded from SRAM or similar, but it could be fairly simple to make it load from your main RAM and then there wouldn't be any issue there.

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