16 Mar
2005
16 Mar
'05
3:51 p.m.
I wrote:
However, I don't *really* think you want to spend
the rest of your
life writing your own FPGA development software. It's a hard problem
and there are hundreds of thousands of man-years of development effort
in the Xilinx software. By the time you got your own software working
for one family, that family would have long since been discontinued.
Scott wrote:
I would suspect that while there might be hundreds of
thousands of man
hours, that there just can't possible be hundreds of thousands of man
*years* involved.
Yes, sorry, I meant man-hours. Only off by three orders of magnitude.
Eric