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yeti

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From: I'm not here: U R halucinating

Registered: 2017-02-23

Posts: 360  

Self hosting digital amoebas.

Self-Hosting (Almost) All The Way Down

A FPGA-based Fedora-capable computer that can rebuild its own bitstream
https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedul … _way_down/

This is what I am waiting for.
Total fluidity down to even the gate level.
Self hosting digital amoebas.

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quickfur

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Registered: 2023-12-14

Posts: 459  

Re: Self hosting digital amoebas.

Now all we need is a consumer-grade silicon chip fabricator driven by the self-hosted output, that can recreate the silicon from ground zero.  This will be the beginning of self-reproducing machines, in the literal sense of the word.

Bring on the silicon clone army!

yeti

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From: I'm not here: U R halucinating

Registered: 2017-02-23

Posts: 360  

Re: Self hosting digital amoebas.

Sufficiently "fat" FPGAs will do for the start.  I assume that smaller ones can be interconnected like with classic bus layouts without sacrificing too much flexibility and maybe even that way make incremental live changes in running systems possible.  Just always have some chips more than you need as stand-by and just switch them when a newer one got configured.  That will stay more flexible than ASICs or other chips with only one fixed contents.

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