23 Jun
2014
23 Jun
'14
4:37 p.m.
"TK" == Tom Knight <tk@ginkgobioworks.com> writes:
TK> If you check these patents, you’ll see that we envisioned the FPGA TK> logic having direct read/write access to the processor register TK> files. This would allow an easy single cycle instruction of the kind TK> you envision. Intel probably didn’t do this, although there is nothing TK> difficult about it. TK> US 5,742,180 and US 6,052,773 The reports I read said that all they are doing is putting an existing fpga chip in the package with their xeon chip, with the two communicating over the same bus multi-socket xeons use between themselves. -JimC -- James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6