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Re:Unconventional Uses of FPGAs by zachbee on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @06:20PM (#39760902)
In practice, though, asynchronous systems can run a lot faster than their synchronous counterparts! Also, I'm mostly working on this project because it's cool and interesting to build oscillator-based computing systems on FPGAs, not because I'm trying to build a practical system.

That's why I posted it here: it's a fun use-case for asynchronous stuff you can do on FPGAs.

Re:Unconventional Uses of FPGAs by pclmulqdq on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @07:16PM (#39761314)
Yeah, it's nice to go faster, but "faster" will not outrace P != NP.

In all seriousness, I'm hoping that "Lyapunov computing" will get some more theoretical attention, because it is very easy to simulate extremely complicated dynamic systems (not constraining yourself to linked oscillator systems), but quantum computing has sort of sucked the air out of the "alternative computing technologies" ecosystem. In any case, the circuits have far outpaced the development of theory in this area.