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		rjsw on Jan 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Cou... Back when AMD released the first Opteron CPUs there was a vendor selling an FPGA that would plug into an Opteron socket along with the IP to implement HyperTransport in the FPGA.

kijiki on Jan 4, 2021 [–]

Really? I used a HT FPGA back then, but it came on an HTX card that fit into the HTX slot on the motherboard.

Never heard of putting it into the socket, would be a real pain to attach JTAG to program/debug your design...

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