16 Mar
2005
16 Mar
'05
4:43 p.m.
>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).
Compensating effects... FPGA's getting more complicated at the same rate the
(development system) processing capabilities are increasing???
Wonder how long with would take to gen the code for a 1986 FPGA on todays
machine, or todays FPGA on a 1986 box........???