Dirk Koch - Open-everything FPGA Design
Some crazy facts here, like (2:04) you can in theory program a single Amazon AWS Datacenter FPGA to dissipate 15kW. They can get hotspots on the chips that dissipate 25W, but the area is so small that the power density is similar to that on the surface of the Sun. The chip survives, but with somewhat reduced life-expectancy. 15:41 Another less spectacular fact, possibly related, is that that on commercial FPGAs like those made by Xilinx, 70-80% of the area of the chip is used for routing connections between LUT/Memory/DSP blocks but (23:20) routing is in practice very sparse.
See https://github.com/FPGA-research.
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