Comments on: Why Intel Might Buy FPGA Maker Altera https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/30/why-intel-might-buy-fpga-maker-altera/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:13:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: raiatea https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/30/why-intel-might-buy-fpga-maker-altera/#comment-3052 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:49:59 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=498#comment-3052 In 2010 Intel announced an Atom E600C with an Altera FPGA in one package.
The processor and the FPGA were connected by a PCI bus (2.5GB/s).
Let’s hope better success to the new hybrids.

]]> By: Larry Pierson https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/30/why-intel-might-buy-fpga-maker-altera/#comment-1918 Wed, 29 Apr 2015 04:18:08 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=498#comment-1918 If they really want FPGAs to fly someone is going to have to do something about VHDL. Its like writing assembler back when C first came out.

My first experience with FPGAs was not writing HDL, but doing schematic capture using the DOS version of Orcad and generating an EDIF netlist. It worked great and you could see the flow of everything easily. I had high level blocks that at a glance told me what was going on. The compiler took care of all the details. I designed four different cards using Altera logic this way and they all worked fine.

I have heard horror stories of an FPGA expert spending three days pouring over 50,000 lines of code to find a single syntax error that kept his code from compiling (he was either missing or had one too many commas somewhere). This is not the wave of the future.

]]>