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[sekiyama]

Hello,
I am wondering if PC application programmers could use CoDeveloper to accelerate their software, as CRAY XD1 users can use CoDeveloper to accelerate their time-consuming calculations.

Could CoDeveloper be used as a SW/HW co-design tool for Pentium processor(s) and commercial FPGA-mounted PCI board(s)?

[David Pellerin]

Hello,
I am wondering if PC application programmers could use CoDeveloper to accelerate their software, as CRAY XD1 users can use CoDeveloper to accelerate their time-consuming calculations.

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Hello,

That is a very good question. In theory, such a board could accelerate certain computations dramatically. The biggest consideration will be communication overhead: will the bottleneck of moving data from the PC to the FPGA and back be too great? The answer will depend of course on your application.

By the way, we have support in CoDeveloper for the Pico Computing PCMCIA cards, which can plug right into your computer to provide FPGA acceleration. This makes it relatively easy to prototype such applications and determine if the speedup is worth the effort. Pico Computing has done some applications (such as code cracking) that demonstrate high levels of acceleration relative to PC-only applications.

You can find details at www.picocomputing.com, or contact Interlink (www.ilink.co.jp) in Japan.

David Pellerin