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(trilema) asciilifeform: the chinese, according to some, do make clones of various Xilinx units
(trilema) benkay: sounds like the xilinx tools are designed to implement a certain set of routines in silicon but the silicon itself can't change the implemented routines until you bake the configuration of the fpga into the fpga itself. am i close?
(trilema) asciilifeform: interestingly, xilinx and other vendors used to publish their internals, but that stopped in the mid-90s when they moved to a 'rent our code' business model
(trilema) asciilifeform: likewise, and even more elementary: can't make a self-reconfiguring xilinx (or other fpga based) system without x86/unix in the loop unless you can ditch the vendor's toolchain
(trilema) asciilifeform: benkay: can't make a self-reconfiguring Xilinx without knowing the exact bitstream format and internal layout.
(trilema) benkay: asciilifeform: why do you need to reverse the xilinx toolchain?
(trilema) asciilifeform: wtf is with 'virtex' anyway. every time i think 'xilinx'. what's next? btc product called 'coca cola' ?
(trilema) asciilifeform: never buy xilinx and altera boards new, they're pennies to the dollar on ebay and the like.
(trilema) asciilifeform: both xilinx ('coke'), altera 'pepsi', and lattice 'inca cola' will happily eat both.
(trilema) mjr_: i have some pretty good xilinx code myself
(trilema) Vbs: Ken just gave them the optimized xilinx RTL code he optimized
(trilema) asciilifeform: dub: an ordinary Xilinx proto board
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