How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (2013)

Re:How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (2013) by bcheung on Monday September 24, 2018 @06:16PM (#18061953)

This article makes me wonder if adding FPGA units to existing CPUs and GPUs that integrate with existing silicon makes a lot more sense than having a completely separate FPGA.

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Re:How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (2013) by FPGAhacker on Monday September 24, 2018 @06:18PM (#18061963)

Integration of cpu and fpga has been done for years.

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Re:How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (2013) by lucb1e on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:07PM (#18077358)

But not in household CPUs which I think is what GP meant. CPU speeds don't increase anymore, having an FPGA that can be programmed by software such as photo editors or encryption engines, things can be sped up a lot. (At least for crypto, one reason to stay with particular algorithms is hardware support; we'd be more agile if we could implement that in software without sacrificing much speed.)

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Re:How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (2013) by jamesissac on Monday September 24, 2018 @08:10PM (#18062579)

Do checkout Xilinx's Zynq series or Altera's Cyclone series, I think that may be what you're inferring ?

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