FPGA 2011

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

Just reminded me of this:


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

Actually, that is pretty close to reality.

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.

I'm sure there is a whole lecture about it but that doesn't change the facts that FRC is not about teaching and students can't work with the latest technologies without understanding the basics. Learning the basics on complex hardware is difficult.

If you really want to play around with an FPGA a quick google search should turn up some hardware you can order and use.