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by guiriduro 2782 days ago
Although if they are on-die, you can benefit from shared L2/L3 cache, and lower power/increased performance of the CPU-FPGA coupling, shared memory path (lower cost than dedicated, although they can compete/starve each other if there isn't good synergy at the OS level.)
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Yeah, the problem is any FPGA solution that integrates directly with the CPU cache is going to be a bit underpowered due to fitting on the silicon. Even the integrated CPU/FPGA SoCs I've seen have the ARM core separated by an interconnect