Re: [computer-go] Computer Go hardware

["chrilly" <chrilly@xxxxxxxx>]

Waldviertel-Hochland, 18.10.2004
>
>What is your opinion on XilinX FORCE?
>I was a beta tester and I was able to do nested for..each loops, besically
>just about everything Java supports.
>
I have not used it so far. But I wrote a test programm for a C to VHDL
development/research project. The task was the knight-tour on a chess-board.
Although I have resolved the recursion and the style of the programm was
very well suited for automatic translation, they never got a competitive
translation (Competitive to the performance of the C-Programm on a standard
PC).
But I know of projects which use MatLab. It is basically a graphical design.
You set the structure and the parameters of the DSP-Algorithm.
Matlab produces for these DSP-applications efficient FPGA-code. In case of
DSP-Algorithms one knows how to parallize e.g. a FFT. In case of the
knight-tour there is no obvious way to do this.
Matlab has some advantages over Verilog/VHDL, but it is not much more work
to do the same in these languages. Matlab is also veeery expensive.

>
>One of the reasons I sold the FPGA PCI board was that I only had a Beta
>licence for 1 month and after that I would have to pay 20,000 USD.
>
The prices for this special purpose tools are completly crazy. Even a Sheikh
is not willing to pay this amount. The basic XiLinx synthesis tool comes for
2.500 USD/year.

Chrilly



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