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Back to Episodes[EN] Computing, but not as you know it: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) - with Michael McLeod
Season 11
Episode 14
Published 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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English Edition: In a follow up about "unusual" computers I want to focus on field programmable gate arrays - FPGAs. With my guest and former colleague at UCL, Michael McLeod, we talk about what they are, where they are used and what's so special about working with them.
Links:
- https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/field-programmable-gate-arrays
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array
- https://fpga.epcc.ed.ac.uk
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language
- https://nandland.com/the-go-board/ the Go Board affordable FPGA for testing and learning
- https://nandland.com/ Nandland have more resources on FPGA
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinx
- https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/fpga.html
- https://space.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/FPL_13_B112a.pdf Paper discussing a use case of hardware preservation with FPGAs
- https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RISC.pdf Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the Pascal language, did some work with FPGA as well
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_decision_process Markov decision process
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