Petr, I will be very interested to hear how this project goes, including
which FPGA you end up targeting, your application (large-scale
parallel? low power?), and how speed compares to the JIT'd VM running
on CPUs.
If you can use an open source toolchain, all the better, although a
free-as-in-beer toolchain would also be OK if the open source ones don't
support your target. If it requires an expensive toolchain, it's still
a good project, but much harder for other people to build on after you
are done. (The beefier FPGAs I was looking at in the last year, for
numeric computing, seemed to require expensive proprietary toolchains.)
Neil V.
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