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9 years ago

FPGA/CPU acceleration: Are companies using it?

Hi all, There has been a lot of buzz about FPGAs to be used as accelerators for data centers (among others on Intel's acquisition of Altera). Which made me wonder: Are there any companies out t...
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9 years ago

I find this interesting, because as an FPGA programmer, I really wanted this to work. However, coding is painful and long, even with MATLAB's HDL coder. The development time is not worth the payoff, and we end up just using FPGA's for interfacing.