FPGA
topic on 4 shows · 8 statements across 6 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Invest Like the Best 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In
8 statements about FPGA, every show
Wachen: Etched emulated full reticle chip on 700 FPGAs before silicon
“We took over 700 FPGAs and put the entire full reticle chip on an FPGA cluster and ran a dozen different models with our full inference stack on them before the chips came back.”
Wachen: Modern EDA and FPGA tools changed chip tape-out failure rates
“I think it's very hard to realize the constraints have changed, and like, you know, when you've looked at tape outs for 20 years, and you've seen so many of them not work on the first try, or the second try, or the third try, like, you couldn't even run a work…”
Patel: Next-Generation AI Racks Require 120 FPGAs per Rack
“There's a project we did on FPGAs, and it turns out there's a 120 FPGAs per, per next generation rack.”
CZ: FPGAs cut high-frequency trading latency from 100 to 20 microseconds
“So back then, when I was, like, still writing code, like, maybe 10 years ago, that ROM trip is about a hundred microseconds. And then by avoiding that, you'd reduce down to 20 microseconds.”
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.”
New Horizons flew to Pluto with only five unused FPGA gates
“He had five. Five gates left. And that's the way we flew.”
Lasenby: Engineers are developing geometric algebra instruction sets for FPGAs and chipsets
“We have a community, not a massive community, but there are lots of people who are very interested in, in you know, potentially getting instructions for chip sets, et cetera. FPGA is, it is. So, and of course we have quite a lot of Programs that people have be…”
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…”