Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

It's nice to see a hardware in work ;)

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Originally Posted by majsta

Me on IRC with new card Yes, it is working :)

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Very good!

That means you have the latest Apollo core in the Altera Cyclone and all the things are running as you posted here in #1 ?

Ok Phoenix core V1 ported.

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Like you can see, smallest accelerator ever produced for Amiga making good progress.

Cool, that is almost exactly the same performance as my 66MHz 060.

That's some cool stuff, declaring interest, PM and Paypal follows. :)

@eXeler0 this is just child's play, you will see what happens in next few days :) This is only proving that hardware part is working properly.
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Yes @majsta, I know v1 core is old :-)
Wasnt sure if you were able to fit v2 core into "fake" Cyclone 3.

I expect full v2.x core to totally destroy the 060 in some benchmarks ;-)

don't you be picking a fight with my 75mhz 68060 :-)

@mjnurney we will play a game when time comes, who have top score on sysinfo :)
@eXeler0 I m actually impressed how this "fake" FPGA performs, I m so impressed that I m wondering all the time is it fake at all.

@majsta it could be fake in the same sense as a 68EC060 rebranded as a RC060 part. Its still a real 060 but stuff is missing (FPU). Could be a real Cyclone III but only 16k LE instead of 40?

(Im sure you already know this but typically, when you create a CPU or GPU you dont utilize the entire logic until later in the process when yealds are good.
So for example, in a nVidia GPU the cheaper parts use maybe 192 out of 256 CUDA cores. This means you can simply disable bad cores and still sell the chip instead of throwing it away. Still someone could label and sell it as if it had 256 functinal cores...
Just a thought.. anyway. Good luck with your hunt for a real Cyclone III.