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AMD's x86 CPU and FPGA Tango on Sapphire Technology's Embedded+ PC Motherboard (eejournal.com)
6 points by peter_d_sherman on Sept 12, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


>"AMD has announced a new PC motherboard architecture for embedded PC applications, which it calls the Embedded+ integrated computing platform. From a hardware perspective, the Embedded+ platform architecture drops an FPGA onto a PC motherboard, connects the FPGA to the x86 CPU via PCIe, and routes the I/O pins from the FPGA to a newly defined expansion connector on the motherboard. In essence, the FPGA becomes a smart – nay, brilliant – I/O expander and hardware compute accelerator for the host x86 CPU."

This is how all x86 PC (and other computer) motherboard proprietary chipsets -- should have been implemented -- but never were!

i.e., the use of an FPGA (or multiple FPGA's) for I/O and other motherboard support functions -- is preferable to any proprietary chipset...

Anyone at Framework (https://frame.work/) listening?

Related:

https://community.frame.work/t/fpga-expansion-bay-module/442...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acommunity.frame.work+...


Previous post on HN:

AMD Unveils Their Embedded+ Architecture, Ryzen Embedded with Versal Together:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39931256




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