FPGA VAX update

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: FPGA VAX update
>   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
>   Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:04:22 -0600
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
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>P&R is mostly sorting is my guess. However my designs view point for 
>open source
>is being able to keep the computer system capable of bootstaping itself. 
>Looking at the
>latest version of red-hat I find it hard to do any real development work 
>as everything
>is becoming too interconnected with every thing else.

P&R is taking the available resources those being:

number of PINS on the package that are for input output or either.
Number of macrocells
Avalable number of "wires" in the routing array (like crosspoint switches)

The devices I'd worked with are two generations (or more) old and it was 
hard to fully use the available cells or if you did you were hitting
the routing limits. However the number of possible terms are HUGE.

>PS. I like small computers -- I just use big ones like PC's to play games.
>12 to 18 bits to me is a nice sized machine.

I happen to like sizes that are multiples of 8 (8, 16 and 24) however
12bits are special to me.


Allison