First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

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    10 months ago

    Are FPGAs particularly suited to solving PDEs? I just did a search and there seem to be some papers discussing implementing various PDE solving algorithms on FPGAs, but I’m not sure if it’s a task uniquely suited to them.

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      10 months ago

      Probably not especially. But aren’t they basically wires burnt in circuit, made programmable via (UV?) light.

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        10 months ago

        No. Modern FPGAs do not use any UV light or have any windows. For storage they use flash memory (same as what’s used in MicroSD cards, USB sticks and SSDs). Some (most?) require you to provide this yourself externally.

        Old EPROM (not EEPROM) storage had windows and needed UV to erase, but that’s decades old. I’m not sure if FPGA was common nomenclature back then (PAL/GAL/CPLD were probably the market).