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Introducing the Intel Cyclone VI...

SeairthSeairth Posts: 2,474
edited 2015-06-07 22:54 in Propeller 2
Well, it looks like the buyout is happening:

http://hackaday.com/2015/06/01/intel-buys-altera-for-16-7-billion/

I wonder how this will affect the hobbyist/hacker community, if at all. For the better, I hope!

Comments

  • evanhevanh Posts: 15,922
    edited 2015-06-02 15:15
    I'm relaxed about it at the moment. Intel has a decent record of supporting the broader community, Quartus Web Edition is good compromise already. So, Intel just has to maintain the status quo.
  • WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,934
    edited 2015-06-02 16:08
    I spoke with a two of my employer's customers about this that use several FGPAs in their products and both said they have no concerns. One said that he would be surprised if any of the changes would affect FPGAs in less than 2 years.

    As an odd coincidence, I happen to have about $30k in Xilinx FPGAs on my desk, box of Virtex 5s and 6s.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2015-06-02 17:54
    Great, Broadcom goes for $15-16B, Altera goes for $16.7B and my company pays $18B for wireless spectrum at some stupid auction.

    I feel like one of those kids whose parent went on a great vacation and the kid gets a T-shirt! :(

    I need to talk to the CEO again, we could have gotten chips!!!!
  • ozpropdevozpropdev Posts: 2,792
    edited 2015-06-02 20:08
    Hopefully someone from Intel will fix some of the Quartus II bugs! ;):lol:
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2015-06-03 21:25
    A single-chip (well almost) x86 w FPGA for all the I/0 (HDD/SSD, HDMI, USB, Ethernet, etc), only adding chip(s) for actual Wifi/Bluetooth, DRAM and HDD/SSD.

    This would make a great super-fast pico PC board/box (ie much smaller than a Mac Mini) !!!

    Intel & Altera have fantastic expertise in working out how to charge for this !!! :(
  • pedwardpedward Posts: 1,642
    edited 2015-06-05 22:06
    I told Chip that it would be cool to have a 256 LE PGA in the Prop 2, but I don't think that will happen. Something just to hack some custom hardware for specific purposes, making whatever a lot faster without having to do it in software.
  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    edited 2015-06-06 21:16
    Yeah. 16 Cogs, 96(?) Smart Pins and some scratch pad PGA.

    cool.

    Mike
  • LawsonLawson Posts: 870
    edited 2015-06-07 22:54
    http://hackaday.com/2015/05/29/an-open-source-toolchain-for-ice40-fpgas/

    It's still a very young project, but that article is about a fully open-source HDL compiler and bit-stream generator for Lattice ICE40 FPGAs. (they're doing the 1K LE model first) Might be the start of a "GCC" for programmable logic in a few years time?

    For now though, don't think a programmable logic block will be that useful for the Prop2 until the code can integrate inline or the logic block is simple enough to hand configure. In the mean time, the Hub streaming capabilities should make it fast and easy to tack on an external FPGA for higher speed applications than the Prop 2 can handle alone.

    Marty
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