Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
by andy_ppp on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:17AM
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It's quite an interesting world where AMD has one of the 8 cores on a chip-let be a Xilinx FPGA. The only issue is they are not easy enough to program but maybe AMD can get out ahead of Nvidia on this one and define the software stack here in the way Nvidia did with CUDA.
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Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
by woofie11 on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:09AM
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VHDL / Verilog is very different, but not necessarily harder per-se. It's just people spend 4 years learning "normal" programming, and at best have a one-semester course which uses VHDL.
But yes, a software stack would help.
Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
by tails4e on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:46AM
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The issue I see is they are slow to compile. I write them daily and it's not that hard to lean when you grok the parallel nature, but generating the HW usually takes at least 10 to 30 mins for a medium sized block, that is a bit of a barrier to entry.
Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
by coreblocks on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:40AM
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As an FPGA dev, I tend to think of HDLs akin to HTML than “code”. It’s just a DSL to describe a graph. Actually pretty similar to how tensorflow is designed.