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Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx by deelowe on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:36PM (#24726168)
I think the idea of configurable hdl modules could be very interesting. A game could load a physics core. Ssh could load a security core and so on. These could be updated similar to firmware or even could ship with the application. The only barrier right now is the long programming times.
Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx by mikepurvis on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:23PM (#24726451)
Well and the whole story with multi-tasking is pretty interesting. Does one application get exclusive use, with the thing able to somehow cache its state on a context switch?