Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU?

Re:Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? by radarsat1 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:15AM (#17758081)

Proprietary and bloated yes, but I believe both Xilinx and Altera both have software available for Linux, or am I wrong? At least I used Altera's suite on Linux once for a pilot project.

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Re:Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? by duck2 on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:32AM (#17764738)

I recently installed Altera Quartus on Debian for a school project. It kept crashing after 2 seconds.

First result on google says quartus uses its own libcurl which is broken and you should copy the OS libcurl to /opt/altera/quartus/lin64/lib/whatever. Lots of issues like this.

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Re:Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? by jeffreyrogers on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:30AM (#17758249)

I have used Xilinx's toolchain on Linux, though it was hard to get working. This was a few years ago.

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Re:Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? by slededit on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:58PM (#17759642)

They support Ubuntu now. Setup was just as easy as windows for me.

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