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Software/Hardware FPGA Dev Board that runs Linux
bforsse writes "The ML300 allows engineers to develop
hardware with HDL synthesis/simulation and software with standard GNU tools. The entire system is implemented inside one FPGA with an integrated IBM PPC processor. The board comes with all the peripherals that a standard motherboard or laptop has and then some.
It currently ships with MontaVista Linux, a number of other linux flavors and OSs are in the pipeline. Maybe this new merging of the hardware and software worlds will settle some of the religious wars between hw and sw engineers?...ok, maybe not."
...the term 'engineer' is used very loosely when you are refering to software engineers...
VHDL is a tool of terror! Especially when put in the hands of those lunix cyberterrorists! These terrorists and their sympathizers are an affront to American liberty, justice, and equality for all non-Muslims. I strongly urge the Right Honourable Prime Minister George Williamson Bush, Junior to pass binding legislation which would put an end to these un-American activities.
P.S. I have similar views on the 3rd world clone chip manufacturer, AMD.
The board comes with all the peripherals that a standard motherboard or laptop has and then some.
With a $6k price tag, it should come with a high class hooker.
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
The problems of the war are pretty easy to solve.
Assume that $religion means the presence of a $diety (belief systems without a $diety, like Taoism, will not be considered ${religion}s, which is to their credit).
Either $diety is hardware (real, grounded in nature, possibly via a marked green cable) or is software (virtual, made up in human minds, subject to revision and short-lived cultural fad approaches like "extreme religion" and "christianity"). Since there are and have been umpteen different $dieties, none of which has lasted, while the hardware has remained relatively stable, $diety is software. This is also confirmed by the near-universal belief that $diety is infinite, which can only be true of software (since it is virtual). As a side note when you consider the state of software this explains a LOT.
So since $diety is software and software requires hardware to run, hardware engineers are titans. They win and software engineers lose.
But since $diety is software and can thus be made and freely and infinitely revised by software engineers, they're the ones who are titans. They win and hardware engineers lose.
So I hope that's cleared things up. Now fight amongst yourselves.