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		delroth on Aug 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? Many FPGAs can load their bitstream from Flash.

jaxtellerSoA on Aug 14, 2018 [–]

Cool, didn't know that. Is the boot time fairly slow compared to booting a normal PC?

hobo_mark on Aug 14, 2018 | [–]

No, we're talking about microseconds.

vardump on Aug 14, 2018 | | [–]

We're often talking about hundreds of milliseconds.

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