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Re:One instruction set computer on Thursday April 16, 2015 @06:03PM (#9391002)
My final year project was a hardware implementation of this. My group made an 8 core coprocessor and an OpenCL-like implementation complete with an LLVM IR to SUBLEQ translator. We actually got performance better than the proprietary NIOS II e soft processor on our image processing demo (Y colorspace conversion).
Re:How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013) on Thursday April 16, 2015 @01:17PM (#9389330)
That's because hardware description languages are not programming languages. This point was constantly emphasized in my digital systems courses. You do not describe a sequence of instructions using an HDL, you describe the layout of a circuit with registers, wires, and logic blocks. You have to consider the physics of the device to avoid violating timing constraints or driving a signal from two different sources, etc.
Re:Calories in, calories out on Friday October 24, 2014 @12:08AM (#8502105)
I think you would be taken more seriously if you used the metric system.
Re:Are We Welcome Entrepreneurs or Unwanted Criminals? on Thursday July 03, 2014 @12:11AM (#7981395)
Stop whining and come to Canada.