Hello!
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I've found this article some time ago - Intel unveils new Xeon chip with integrated FPGA, touts 20x performance boost. (http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-xeon-chip-with-integrated-fpga-touts-20x-performance-boost)
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It states, that:
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"Late yesterday, Intel quietly announced one of the biggest ever changes to its chip lineup: It will soon offer a new type of Xeon CPU with an integrated FPGA. This new Xeon+FPGA chip will fit in the standard E5 LGA2011 socket, but the integrated FPGA will allow each chip to be customized to specific workloads."
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"Whatu2019s the purpose of this new Xeon+FPGA product? In the words of Intel: u201CThe FPGA provides our customers a programmable, high performance coherent acceleration capability to turbo-charge their critical algorithms.u201D Intel estimates that the Xeon+FPGA will see massive performance boosts in the 20x range (for code executed on the FPGA instead of a conventional x86 CPU u2014 but obviously there will be big overall speedups as bottlenecks are removed. The other advantage is that workloads change u2014 so if your critical algorithms change, or your whole company pivots, the FPGA can be repurposed without having to buy lots of new hardware."
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I just want to ask - is it possible to use MicroZed SoM to create additional devices (part of code or functions converted to hardware schemas) from programmable FPGA elements embedded in Zynq7000 and make them available in runned OS, or this is impossible with MicroZed? And if this is impossible, it's because of current design of SoM, or because of Zynq7000 architecture?
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And what do you think about new series of Zync MPSoC - Zynq UltraScale? Do you plan to use it in new products?
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Thanks a lot.
