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These chips usually cost $1k-$2k when bought new individually from the manufacturer
Are we talking about physical products or cloud services?
Reminds me how Alibaba innovated in database space with a cluster of FPGAs doing LSM compaction with custom MySQL storage engine - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3299869.3314041 Basically they achieved massive improvements in throughput and latencies vs RocksDB, for some operations even an order of magnitude. They even offered this as a service, but eventually pulled out. Not sure if they are still using it, but…
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Are we talking about physical products or cloud services?
There’s zero cloud service in the article, only physical boards decommissioned by a hyperscaler. Asking about cloud services tells me you only read the title.
A Kintel UltraScale+ is quite a prize though, really nice write up.
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At work we always have 20-30x FT2232H on stock. They are super useful - they speak GPIO, I2C, SPI, parallel FIFO, etc. And their pyFTDI Python lib is great.
Just be careful as the counterfeit FTDI chips can have bad internal regulators etc. (Usually those small Red UART and GPIO breakout hobby PCB.) Usually better to use the vendor supplied JTAG tools, or build your own with known good silicon. Recovering FPGA hardware is always a mixed bag of what IP and documentation is available to bring up the board. Looks like nice silicon though. =3
Same for ST. Only the STM32F103 is a well known bad actor in the market.
But why? Are these boards frequently removed and physically moved around in data centers?
Or was that an eBay seller thing to protect it?
I guess there aren't any GPIO's wired up to headers or such? Any suggestions on a project for it that's a good fit?
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There’s zero cloud service in the article, only physical boards decommissioned by a hyperscaler. Asking about cloud services tells me you only read the title.
I read the title and was confused why the article did not match it.
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Just be careful as the counterfeit FTDI chips can have bad internal regulators etc. (Usually those small Red UART and GPIO breakout hobby PCB.) Usually better to use the vendor supplied JTAG tools, or build your own with known good silicon. Recovering FPGA hardware is always a mixed bag of what IP and documentation is available to bring up the board. Looks like nice silicon though. =3
Not all FTDI series are faked. Only the most popular FT232 as far as I know. Same for ST. Only the STM32F103 is a well known bad actor in the market.