Exactly... they're faster (once they have been programmed with a set).  For
example, they don't have a peak performance rate once they've been
programmed... because their peak is the sustained rate.

And also their ability to parallel process is a major step... Von Neumann
would be impressed.  :)

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Ken wrote in message <37751A48.D47E7897@pacbell.net>...
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>
>Lance Birch wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... just read the article and went to Star Bridges Systems' website...
>> I'm pretty speechless...
>>
>> A Field Programmable Gate Array running at 100 Trillion Floating Point
>> Operations Per Second...
>>
>> I litterally got a shiver down my spine reading that...
>>
>> Lance.
>
>  While FPGA's are extremely fast it is important to remember that they are
>not CPU's and do not operate quite the same way.
>
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