There is a joint project by Celoxica, AMD and Xilinx to create a new Opteron + FPGA combo.
Is it possible to use this new CPU for Amiga chipset emulator based on Minimig?
From Electronics Weekly:
"AMD is joining FPGA firm Xilinx and design tool specialist Celoxica to discuss the potential for hardware acceleration of microprocessors using tightly coupled co-processor devices at next month’s Embedded Systems Conference in the San Jose, California. According to the firms, previous attempts at off-load into parallel and programmable hardware architectures have fallen short of the mark due to technical barriers, price or lack of suitable design tools for development and debug. They are expected to present a “commercially viable solution” based on FPGAs and ESL design. At the heart of the proposal is AMD’s Opteron processor with its Direct Connect Architecture and native HyperTransport technology used with a Xilinx FPGA, supported by Celoxica’s programming environment, to create a “cost effective” accelerated computing platform."
