[object Object] on Nostr: there is a third, insane option I keep seeing in the FPGA retrogaming community C: ...

there is a third, insane option I keep seeing in the FPGA retrogaming community

C: “the FPGA is just an emulator with more implicit parallelization, which is otherwise indistinct from a cycle-accurate software emulation of the same circuits”

the above view dips into magical thinking quick when ASICs implementing the same HDL get brought up — either they’re not real silicon, or the difference in primitives is blown up into some massive categorical difference