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zoltanlehoczky

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    Comment #21748626

    Yes, FPGA "threads" much like CPU threads can contain complex logic, and different from each other.

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    Comment #21731262

    And regarding Nexys: now we actually support Microsoft Catapult FPGAs as well and working on others too. It's quite challenging to add support for each of them, since as I'm sure y…

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    Comment #21730059

    I agree with the tooling issue. One of the reason we started Hastlayer was the viewpoint that "I'm a .NET developer with Visual Studio and everything else. Why would I want to use …

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    Comment #21730042

    The transformation is surely a solvable problem given that various HLS tools, OpenCL for FPGAs and Hastlayer exist :). Whether it makes sense is another question and I don't preten…

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    Comment #21729982

    The approach here is to use FPGAs as compute accelerators, much like GPGPUs, and in somewhat similar use-cases. I.e. if you have an embarrassingly parallel compute-bound algorithm …

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    Comment #21729961

    Yes, it's converting .NET code to run on FPGAs by creating an equivalent hardware design to the logic contained in the .NET code. And yes, it's all about parallelization. As the do…

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    Comment #15342126

    Is that project still active?

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    Turning software into computer chips – Hastlayer (.NET Conf)

    https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/dotnetConf/2017/T212 Converts .NET software into hardware implementations with FPGAs. On GitHub: https://github.com/Lombiq/Hastlayer-SDK Only suppo…