Re: [oc] It's nto the core, it's the hardware

[Rudolf Usselmann <rudi@asics.ws>]

on 2/7/01 4:51, vik@econz.co.nz at vik@econz.co.nz wrote:

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> I think the geek community could do with a reprogrammable bit of
> logic that attaches to any computing device. With this, the concept
> of open cores becomes much more useful to computer users in general.
> 
> Vik :v)
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> 


Those devices are already available. They are called FPGA prototyping
boards. They will plug in to your PC and allow you to upload a configuration
file to configure the FPGAs. You could take a core from the opencores web
site and upload it to those FPAGs, and voila, you have extended your PC !
The drawback is that those boards are quite expensive (at least the better
ones).

Cheers,
rudi