16 Mar
2005
16 Mar
'05
4:09 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
[1] This was about 10 years ago, on a high-spec PC for
the
time. A compilation cycle took _overnight_. Which meant that
if I made a small change to the design I couldn't test if
until the next morning. I could have hand-wired the darn
design quicker.
FWIW it still takes a good (8 hour) day to get one turnaround
of the code for our FPGAs (and that's using high-spec PCs).
This was true three years ago too, so I presume that, barring
any great breakthrough, things will remain the same (at least
for the complex sorts of FPGAs we[1] do).
OTOH hand-wiring something equivalent would keep you occupied
a bit longer than a day I should think :-)
Antonio
[1] I don't build FPGAs, I write the software to drive
them and get some input into how they should behave. I
still get to suffer the one-day turnaround though!
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org