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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

Unix System Admin Tools

Hi, I am new to this forum and to FPGAs therefore excuse my lack of knowledge on the subject and guide me in the right direction. I am Linux System Admin and our organization is considerin...
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9 years ago

What are you trying to do with them? FPGAs are massively power hungry compared to stand alone CPUs and much slower and less powerful. Aer you trying to build some custom co-processor?

FPGAs are not meant for running a server, but could be used to accelerate some functionality.