[86904] in Cypherpunks
FPGAs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Ghio)
Sun Sep 21 23:58:38 1997
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:14:51 -0400
From: ghio@temp0115.myriad.ml.org (Matthew Ghio)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: ghio@temp0115.myriad.ml.org (Matthew Ghio)
Here are a few programs which haven't been mentioned here before. They take
C/C++ code and compile it to FPGAs, which might be interesting to someone
who's working on, oh, say RC5...
The first is at http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/tmcc/tmcc/
and compiles C code to Xilinx or Altera FPGAs.
Another is at ftp://lslsun5.epfl.ch/pub/nlc*
It uses a slightly different syntax and targets Xilinx chips.
There's also a routing optimizer at
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~lemieux/sega/sega.html
http://193.215.128.3/freecore/ gives plans for building a programmer to
load designs into Altera FPGAs.
While I not sure how well-optimized the output from such software is, it
is interesting to note that someone with relatively basic electronics and
computer programming experience could put together a massively parallel
key-cracker.
