DailyTech - Reprogrammable Coprocessors For Any Opteron Server

DailyTech - Reprogrammable Coprocessors For Any Opteron Server

DRC has announced its newest FPGA that drops into AMD's Socket 940





The Register has a fairly in depth look at one start-up's attempt to capitalize on AMD's HyperTransport interface -- a reprogrammable coprocessor that can drop into any Socket 940 socket. The company, DRC, built its programmable coprocessor on Xilinx Virtex4 field programmable gate array integrated circuits.