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Five open source hardware projects that could change the world (The H)
Here's a
lengthy survey of open hardware projects in The H. "The
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signal processing, encryption and networking. Since you can program many
hardware paths in an FPGA they are well suited to jobs that can be broken
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millions of logic blocks and have a transistor count well into the
billions, with a blisteringly fast serial bandwidth that is measured in
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