Don't get me wrong, this is very fucking cool. I have long yearned for a world where an FPGA PCIe add-in card is something practically useful and every year I gain a bit of hope that we're slowly plodding along toward that future.
But what I really want to see is quake running on quake specific hardware, with everything burned into the logic elements running at some thousands of FPS, rather than quake running on a softcore.
While we're on the subject, the real thing that's holding back broader adoption of FPGA programming is the fucking tooling. I cannot wait till we have something FOSS like clang/gcc for verilog/vhdl that can be reasonably relied upon. Quartus is... quartus is something else.
(ok maybe the real thing holding back adoption is that it's extremely fucking niche that you actually need FPGA latency, but let me dream)
But what I really want to see is quake running on quake specific hardware, with everything burned into the logic elements running at some thousands of FPS, rather than quake running on a softcore.
While we're on the subject, the real thing that's holding back broader adoption of FPGA programming is the fucking tooling. I cannot wait till we have something FOSS like clang/gcc for verilog/vhdl that can be reasonably relied upon. Quartus is... quartus is something else.
(ok maybe the real thing holding back adoption is that it's extremely fucking niche that you actually need FPGA latency, but let me dream)