I've seen the future of DIY (was RE: [sdiy] Tiny FPU chip/16 bit micros?)

[Rainer Buchty]

>That is why God created Verilog... :-)

...or VHDL for that matter.

>I still have plans for making a monster digital synth in an FPGA.  You can 
>literally put thousands of oscillators into one of these parts.
>
>And, if you want to go Hog Wild, and have a fat wallet, one of the New 
>Virtex IV parts has 512 18x18 Multiplier Accumulators in it that will run 
>at 300MHz...that is an unbelievable amount of computing horse power.

Uhm, but that would be waste. Of course you want to pipeline the whole 
design instead of creating a dozen instances of oscillators, filters and 
whatsoever.

Having multipliers in place is great -- although I don't want to see the 
Virtex-4 price tag. But if 4-12 multipliers are also suitable, then
Spartan-III should do the job.

Rainer