[66554] in Cypherpunks
Re: FPGAs (was: Edited Edupage, 19 Sept 1996)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Trei)
Thu Sep 26 10:02:26 1996
From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
To: EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU, cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:40:36 -6
Reply-To: trei@process.com
Cc: trei@toad.com
> From: IN%"educom@educom.unc.edu" 20-SEP-1996 01:52:41.56
>
> >*****************************************************************
> >Edupage, 19 September 1996. Edupage, a summary of news about information
> >technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom,
> >a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities
> >seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.
> >*****************************************************************
> >PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER CHIPS
> >Next month, Metalithic Systems Inc. will release a $1500 sound board called
> >Digital Wings that uses field-programmable gate array computer chips that
> >can be personalized, allowing the user to create and edit up to 128
> >soundtracks. When used in combination with Windows 95, Digital Wings will
> >give users access to audio synthesis and editing tools comparable to those
> >of a professional sound studio. (Business Week 23 Sep 96 p86)
>
> I wonder exactly how reprogrammable this system is...
Who cares? If you want to program an FPGA, there are plenty of
cheaper systems available: for example, see
http://204.58.152.114/products/isa.html
Peter Trei
trei@process.com
