On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Jim Bridgewater <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Certainly I agree with your assessment that we won't be seeing
> affordable dev boards based on this chip soon if ever, but I don't
> think rolling your own FPGA solution is likely to be the quickest or
> best solution either.
>
> I did a lot of work with FPGAs in the past and would not bet on them
> to achieve better performance than GPUs.  Certainly FPGA solutions
> will not scale as easily as GPU solutions.  Plus there is already a
> start on porting the CLA to openCL, http://github.com/Jontte/CortiCL.
>

Yes. GPUs can be very powerful for this kind of computing.   However I
was thinking about real time data input, for example a 30 frame per
second video feed.   Maybe there is an easy way to get high bandwidth
into and openCL based app?.


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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California

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