Well, maybe I misunderstand your statement here, but in Telecom most heavy iron has plenty of FPGAs, and as far as I understand it, they more or less have to. -TD
From: "Riad S. Wahby" <rsw@jfet.org> To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net> Subject: Re: SHA1 broken? Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:57:50 -0600
Thomas Shaddack <shaddack@ns.arachne.cz> wrote:
There are FPGAs with on-chip RISC CPU cores, allowing reaping the benefits of both architectures in a single chip.
FPGAs are mostly useful for prototyping. Once you've decided on a design, there's no point in realizing it in a reprogrammable environment. Synthesize it, time it carefully, and run it as fast as your process allows.
TSMC 0.13u just ain't that pricey any more.
-- Riad S. Wahby rsw@jfet.org