Re: FPGA using Python language

From: smf <smf_at_null.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:32:12 +0000
Message-ID: <a53f2c5e-4cd5-4f57-ed91-78addaa9e64c_at_null.net>
On 25/02/2021 15:16, silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl wrote:
> - when emulation stops being one and becomes prototype

If you intend to build an asic and are checking how it will run in a
system then you are emulating the asic.

Prototyping and emulation overlap, it doesn't have to stop being one.

> - when emulation stops being one and becomes real thing
Are you going to build a real thing? Then you're emulating the real
thing. If you aren't going to build a real thing, then you aren't
emulating.
> - when a "PGA" (like the one originally used for PLA implementation) is the real thing and when not

If anything, the later PLA chips emulate the behavior of the 82S100
based ones.

> - what constitutes the core functionality/logic and what the supporting infrastructure
> - probably more
I don't understand your point. You either have something you want to
build, but do it with some off the shelf chips or you don't. What core
functionality those off the shelf chips has is irrelevant. It could be a
CPU, it could be an FPGA, or it could be some TTL.
> And I somehow don't see us finding common frame of reference on those any time soon :-)

If you need FPGA to be special then probably not.
Received on 2021-02-26 19:00:03

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