FPGA VAX update

[woodelf]

Johnny Billquist wrote:

>I'd say that's wrong. Considering that the VAX8650 microcode engine runs
>at 68 MHz and manages about 7 times the 11/780, you're optimistic.
>The 8650 have a very large microcode word, actually have three (or was
>it four?) microcode engines running in parallell, and some very advanced
>cacheing and pipelining to speed it up to get even that far.
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Also compared to a smaller machine -- remember you have floating point 
stuff as well
as the basic instruction set. I forgot about that too. That is a fast 
engine -- about 15 ns.

>	Johnny
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