12 May
2007
12 May
'07
9:44 p.m.
Hi,
Brad Parker wrote:
Mark Tapley wrote:
Hm... But that is prototyping gear - and
very expensive... Don't ask me
if it has to be called unusual... But... For the masses - it's unusual :-)
> Sure, but no one (in their right mind) builds
a general purpose CPU out
> of them. Well, unless it's a research or "toy" project, a prototype
> design, or something very unusual and high end[1], but even in that case
> it's still not making a general purpose CPU out of it.
Some people might disagree, but they may fit into the "high end[1]", but
not unusual. Unless you think that the machines that test the chips in
your cell phone or flat tv are unusual :-) I'd be curious where you thing a NIOS cpu in an
Altera fpga fits into
this discussion. Certainly a general purpose cpu. And it fits in
an fpga.
That fits perfectly. AFAIK, Nios is the Altera soft processor designed
to be implemented using their FPGAs.
But much cooler are FPGAs with hard (and fast!!) CPU integrated
(PowerPC, ARM). With those you can realize amazing projects.
Philipp :-)
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