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Re:Dadamachines Doppler: FPGA open music hardware by PorterDuff on Saturday March 23, 2019 @10:54PM (#19473895)
I was wondering the opposite direction.

If there's an FPGA, why have a general purpose CPU?

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Re:Dadamachines Doppler: FPGA open music hardware by teknico on Monday March 25, 2019 @10:01AM (#19482422)
From the article:

"That frees up the FPGA to do audio only."

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