From: amp@pobox.com
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:28:06 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: geodesic -- FPGAs
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Scientific American had a fairly high level treatment of FPGAs recently. 
They mentioned ways they could be used in conjuction with standard CPUs. The author 
predicts that within 5 or so years, we'll be seeing hybrid systems using FPGAs in 
common use.




   
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  From: Decius 6i5 <decius@ninja.techwood.org>
  Subject: geodesic -- FPGAs 
  Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 06:58:56 -0400 (EDT) 
  To: cypherpunks@toad.com


> I've been reading the Geodesic systems thread with much interest... I've
> been playing around with FPGAs recently, Field Programmable Gate Arrays,
> which list members should be familiar with due to discussions concerning
> cheap hardware crypto. Why not replace your entire architecture with
> reconfigurable hardware? This is sort of like Java turned upside down.
> Instead of having generalized code running on a specialized "virtual
> machine." (Which is inefficient as hell) Why not ship the architecture
> your program runs on along with the program. Liquid architecture. If the
> FPGA's are standardized (not likely, but..) you could run whatever kind of
> software you wanted and the architecture would automatically reconfigure
> to run the code and would be optimized for your application. There are
> some challenges with muti-tasking but I think you could manage the
> gate-space like you do memory. Web searches on FGPAs will bring you to
> research being done on this sort of thing...
> 
> -- 
>         */^\*  Tom Cross AKA Decius 615 AKA The White Ninja  */^\* 
>                        Decius@ninja.techwood.org
> 
> "If the economic, social and political conditions... do not offer a basis 
> for the realization of individuality, while at the same time people have 
> lost those ties which gave them security... powerful tendencies arise to 
> escape from freedom into submission." -- Erich Fromm
> 

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