USB Universal Floppy Disk controller

[Antonio Carlini]

Tony Duell wrote:
> [1] This was about 10 years ago, on a high-spec PC for the
> time. A compilation cycle took _overnight_. Which meant that
> if I made a small change to the design I couldn't test if
> until the next morning. I could have hand-wired the darn
> design quicker. 

FWIW it still takes a good (8 hour) day to get one turnaround
of the code for our FPGAs (and that's using high-spec PCs).
This was true three years ago too, so I presume that, barring
any great breakthrough, things will remain the same (at least
for the complex sorts of FPGAs we[1] do).

OTOH hand-wiring something equivalent would keep you occupied
a bit longer than a day I should think :-)

Antonio

[1] I don't build FPGAs, I write the software to drive
them and get some input into how they should behave. I
still get to suffer the one-day turnaround though!


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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org