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Re:On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (1996) by gudok on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:43AM (#18407022)
How much time would it take to synthesize 500K-lut design on a high-end workstation?
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Re:On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (1996) by nraynaud on Thursday November 08, 2018 @12:43PM (#18408104)
wait, we have an FPGA-based hardware module to accelerate synthetization!

(or even more ironic: an ASIC module)

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Re:On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (1996) by TomVDB on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:20PM (#18409607)
Around 5 hours.
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