16 Mar
2005
16 Mar
'05
2:51 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:30:39 -0800 (PST)
"Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com> 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.
Eric
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.
Hundreds of thousands of man years is just frightening to think about.
Maybe something like the Apollo mission.