FPGA 2011

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

THIS. I am building an FPGA image for the NI 9074 for work and I can tell you that it is complex. Plus, if you think compile times stink now...I hit compile then walk laps around the building for the next 30 minutes (I have to keep my figure somehow).

Just reminded me of this:


http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/xkcd/dac0/


now can't they add another FPGA onto the board or at least provide an extra FPGA to use? I honestly think that exposing students to harder and more complex "things" is the wise thing to do. As we speak right now, the world of computing is zooming by us. We are in the age of multicore/processor parallel processing. Due to the physical limitations and power consumption level of computer are now getting, the trends are leveling out. There is a whole lecture about this; the bottom line is that if we want to produce engineers of the future, expose them to the technologies of the new, not the old.