[Oberon] FPGA Oberon some news and a reply to F.P.

[greim]

Hallo Aubrey,



Am 02.03.2014 23:11, schrieb Aubrey.McIntosh at Alumni.UTexas.Net:
> The bitcoin miners used Spartan 6 units, and they are being abandoned
> now that ASICs are available.  I wonder if these would be useful?
>

If an FPGA algorithm is working well and you don't like to change 
anything in your algorithm anymore, its (in theory) not so difficult to 
generate from the Verilog or VHDL code an hard wired ASIC instead of a 
soft-wired FPGA.

ASICs are simply cheaper! The disadvantage is that you have to order at 
least 100.000+ or so.
Also an ProjectOberon ASIC would be possible.
But then you would give up at least one degree of freedom.



Markus Greim