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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by mratsim on Sunday January 14, 2024 @07:17PM (#38995881)
The stuff on the PRO is a Xilinx FPGA, or they have both an ARM Processor and an FPGA?
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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by p_l on Sunday January 14, 2024 @07:32PM (#38995993)
The NPUs are effectively hard IP blocks on xilinx FPGA fabric (i.e. there are close to no LUTs there - the chip takes in Xilinx bitstream but the only available resources are hard IP blocks)

There's also Xtensa cores (audio coprocessor) and ARM cores included (PSP, Pluton, and I think there's extra ARM coprocessor for handling some sensor stuff optionally)

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