So as not to leave my fellow hardware engineers unrepresented, I present my entry for day 3 of March Madness:
The following code implements (poorly, no doubt) the 64-bit floating point reciprocal approximation unit from the Cray-1 (in Verilog 2001). Warning, not for the faint of heart =)
As part of our on-going Awesome-August effort, I just completed my FPGA-based DNA sequence alignment accelerator! Behold!
This bad boy can reach 1.8 Giga-cell-updates-per-second when aligning two DNA sequences, all while running off of less than 2.5W from a USB port. Step 1 in my evil plan to take over the world is complete!
Get your tuber on! Introducing the first multiplayer, competitive potato reproduction-simulator to grace the internets. This game lets you compete head to head with a friend to see who’s potato can reproduce the most. It’s multiplayer only, and supports same-computer, TCP/IP, IPX, modem and null-modem. Win95 or higher required.
/I love making useless things
I’ve always wanted my own supercomputer. Let’s be honest, what self-respecting geek doesn’t? Unfortunately, I’m usually poor, and I live in a space that’s ~300 ft^2 (that I share with someone else), so actually owning anything considered “super” is out of the question. Fortunately, “Supercomputers” from the 1980’s weren’t actually all that complicated, and cheap FPGA boards have gotten pretty good. On that note, crank up the Devo and check out the Non-Von1.
After many months, my Kaypro 2 is finally up and running! Weighing in at around 30 lbs, with a 4 Mhz Z-80 processor, 64kb of RAM, (upgraded!) dual 360kb floppy drives, and the rock-solid CP/M 2.2 operating system, this box is a lean, mean computing machine. NYCR-BBS, anyone?