FPGA for dummies

[JimS]

Using the FPGA isn't emulation argument then the CD player doesn't play music as it is converted from analogue to digital and then back to analogue, while the tape stores an analogue wave.
 
In reality they are both lossy audio storage & reproduction systems, but the loss is in different areas.
 

You make my point for me. ;-)

[JimS]

That's where you're wrong. As language evolves, words pick up new meanings for specific contexts. For example, with computing, you have a bunch of words that existed before modern computing, but that have specific meanings when applied to computers: kernel, shell, mouse, pipe, etc...

Not only that, but the word "computer" had a meaning before the electronic device was invented. It originally referred to a person who had the fun task of calculating by hand huge and tedious tables of math functions. (Sin Cos and such)

[JimS]

Quite right. This is the description of computer that existed at the time of Turing, in his work (and the work of other computing pioneers) he used this earlier definition to convey what was being proposed.

So when it comes down to it, if you believe some folks,  every computer from ENIAC to WATSON are mere emulators of some Victorian guy hunched over a stack of foolscap with a quill pen. :-)  <-----------

 In view of the Season, a Bob Cratchit clone.

The First Amiga


A more recent emulation

[JimS]

Hey, I just got an email from Xilinx yesterday announcing that their new Vivado web pack edition was available for download...

Lurch: If you'd read the thread accurately, you'd have learned that:
FPGA = Reimplimentation
UAE = Emulation.   ;-)