USB Universal Floppy Disk controller

Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner spc at conman.org
Thu Mar 17 23:41:24 CST 2005


It was thus said that the Great Tony Duell once stated:
> 
> > For a complex change, doing it on the FPGA is much faster.  For instance,
> > suppose I decide that I want to change the load and store byte
> > instructions to be little-endian rather than big-endian.  With an HDL
> 
> That's not a change, it's a redesign :-). Seriously, I do like to have 
> some idea of what I am trying to build before I start building it.
> 
> > IF I want to do things like experiment with adding extra pipeline stages,
> > the FPGA is an even bigger win.
> 
> And when it doesn't work, and you can't probe the relevant signal in the 
> FPGA, the board of TTL/ECL is a much bigger win...

  Just an observation, but this is reminding me so much of the arguments
I've read about Assembly vs. C ...

  -spc (Or now, about C++ vs. Perl ... )



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