Michael Schnell wrote: > Thanks a lot for telling us your experiences. > > I feel very happy that I chose an FPGA and not a dedicated hardware CPU, > so I can decide at any time if I want an MMU or not. :)
Yes, FPGAs are nice in that way. I like being able to add special instructions and coprocessors whenever I feel like it :-) I used to program FPGAs (one board had 36 large ones :-), but I'm working an a dedicated CPU now because of unit cost in a price sensitive project. I have the impression that all FPGAs are either _much_ more expensive than a CPU ($100s compared with, say, $5), or too small to implement things like an MMU realistically and still have room for coprocessors. Is my impression quite wrong now? I would like to implement HDTV video decoding and a medium speed Linux system for a few $10s. (And I'd be happy to open source the decoder). Is that now feasible with an FPGA? Thanks, -- Jamie _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
