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5 Fold Performance Increase.

Nick Fellows

Posts 176
29 Jul 2017 14:04


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I'll just leave this here for discussion.

To kick off , could this apply to a future vampire card?



Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
29 Jul 2017 15:15


What it seems to be implying is that, "FPGAs used to have a speed limit of 450 MHz... Now we are able to make FPGAs that operate 5 times as fast, because we can make FPGAs that work at 2.25 GHz".

They didn't say "2.25 GHz", but that is 5 times the 450 MHz that they started with. It's the same as when they are able to make faster ASICs (example, i3, i5 or i7s).

edit - Forget what I said above:

Thought it was a new manufacturing process (as the article is confusing) but there was a link to a longer article where the information originally came from.

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It says they did a deep analysis of how the FPGA works, and used their own code to make it do the same things that the original manufacturer set it up to do, but faster.... Basically, like rewriting commands from C to assembler?

I think Gunnar and everyone else working on the Apollo may have themselves figured out how to do that already!!!!

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