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FPGA

3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 28, 2017 by Jason Mars · across every show →

Everything said about FPGA, oldest first

Jul 28, 2017 positive
Assertion Supported
Mars: Porting Sirius to GPUs and FPGAs yields 10x speedup
“We can get significant speedups when we port these algorithms To GPU, when we leverage GPUs and FPGAs to build future servers, and what that means is we can bring that scalability gap down, and so we can get about 10 X back if we move by taking these, ah, by t…”
Jason Mars Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 11:57 Jason Mars
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Contradicted
New Horizons flew to Pluto with only five unused FPGA gates
“He had five. Five gates left. And that's the way we flew.”
Ivan Linscott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:04 a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
NASA mandates a 15% to 25% FPGA gate margin for spaceflight
“NASA guidelines is you need at least, we would like you to have a 25% margin. Minimum number is 15%, which means 50% of a million gates, 150,000 gates just sitting there unused.”
Ivan Linscott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:35 a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
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