USB Universal Floppy Disk controller

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Wed Mar 16 17:51:25 CST 2005


I wrote:
> However, I don't *really* think you want to spend the rest of your
> life writing your own FPGA development software.  It's a hard problem
> and there are hundreds of thousands of man-years of development effort
> in the Xilinx software.  By the time you got your own software working
> for one family, that family would have long since been discontinued.

Scott wrote:
> I would suspect that while there might be hundreds of thousands of man
> hours, that there just can't possible be hundreds of thousands of man
> *years* involved.

Yes, sorry, I meant man-hours.  Only off by three orders of magnitude.

Eric



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