Unfortunately, our lives under the rule of the Islamic Republic is so absurd that much of it could sound like a joke to people living in normal countries.
A nice thing about FPGAs is that everything is parallel by default. There's no instruction pipeline, unless you implement one in the hardware. Since there's no OS, there's nothing to crash, unless the whole thing just burns out.
Iran did not say that it's a quantum processor. They admitted that it jus uses quantum algorithms. Btw our drones also use american technology. Its hard to build sth like this from scratch. Its reasonable to buy
Fun fact: Diligent is owned by a man who is a professor at Washington State University. We used similar boards as learning devices for our embedded systems classes there. I wouldn't be surprised if this was targeted as either a demo board or an educational board for basic I/O control through the SoC.
@@someonerandom704 I'm also in Ohio, at Case, we use a mix of really out of date Terra FPGA boards based on some Altera chip, and slightly less out of date Pynq boards that are more similar to this one, with both arm cores and Zynq FPGAs
Being a lead architect designer and FPGA programmer for the past 15 years. its quit fun to see it presented in a (I mean no disrespect) tech channel for common people and explained in a way that makes sense. I always have a hard time explaining what it is I do for a living becuase im not a software programmer as such. And im not just a hardware designer.
Most people don't care about that stuff, and never will, because it's useless for them. For us, embedded developers it's something common. Imagine the shock of his viewers if he was to show what PLC is. And how much they can cost
This zionist shill who went to Apartheid Israel last year, makes a fake video based on anti-iran propaganda. Iran said it was running quantum algorithms (just software), not quantum computing or quantum hardware. This video is a great sample of anti-Iran desperate propaganda.
Used these in school courses, and ended up making a lot of fun projects with them. If only the secret quantum features had been unlocked earlier, maybe us computer engineering students would be learning how to make time machines instead of CPUs :)
Time travel isn't possible, doesn't matter what type of computing power you have available. It's hilarious, people really think they can travel 🎉in time when there wouldn't be anything to travel to. What, you think only people move forward with the passing of time, so does everything else. If you traveled back in time you would find an empty void, because the rest of the universe isn't there anymore. If you traveled forward, the same void, as the rest of the universe isn't there yet. Nevermind particle preoccupation. If the rest of the universe WAS there, so would be the atoms you are made of. If you traveled to a different time the particles you consist of are doing something else, so as you traveled to a destination time, your particles from that time would have to travel to your origin time to compensate, and this would mean at the median time between the destination and origin time those two sets of identical atoms would need to coexist in the same moment as they passed each other in the timeline... which is not possible. THEN there's production and distribution of reorientation energy. To move something through time you are talking about reorienting every atom, every sub atomic particle, every yet to be discovered sub sub atomic and super sub atomic particle, which would take a tremendous amount of energy. In fact, reorientating every particle in the universe would take more energy than there is IN our universe, again, rendering time travel impossible. So take it from a guy from 2152, time travel is ABSOLUTELY impossible... ...well, I didn't say anything about quantum phase shifting between quantum variants of Earth that are at different points along their respective timelines, now did I? That, bow that IS ENTIRELY possible.
@@godchi1dvonsteuben770 people who have traveled in time most likely isnt going to ever comment and say hey I did... You make assumptions... It is possible... Your just a fish in a bowl... Stay in there sheep...
Damn. As an Iranian we been laughing at this for the past couple of weeks but never thought it would become a LTT video. To be honest when the news came up it was so stupid that I was skeptical of how stupid they can be to say something like that so I did a little research and it seems that they never in fact claimed to have made a quantum computer. I didn't watch the full presentation but from the few picture I have seen it's even written on the board "quantum algorithm" not quantum computer and I assume it's some kind of simulation algorithm that they have implemented. The mistake could be on the officials who made it by saying wrong stuff during the announcement or by other people that were equally under informed about the whole thing that they mistakenly assumed they have mistaken! As I said I didn't deemed the news worthy of my time to check the video of the presentation and I don't think it's even available but those were my own assumptions! Maybe I'm the one making the mistake of assuming others making a mistake!
پروژه رو قبلتر یکی از خبرگزاری ها برای شروع اعلام کرده بوده با بودجه 24 میلیون دلار بعد از چند ماه که مثلا به سرانجام رسیده ما اینارو دیدیم، یعنی نه تنها این مسئله خیلی مسخره و احمقانه بوده، بلکه اونی که داشته بودجه رو تعیین میکرده و کار رو شروع میکرده هم از اول سرش کلاه رفته و کلی پول رو هدر داده، 24 میلیون دلار بودجه پرداخت شده یه تحقیق کوچیک نکردن، یه تیم نیاوردن به عنوان کارشناس همراه باشه باهاشون، دو بار بازرسی نرفتن، کلا یه روز همین جوری گفتن بریم ببینیم چه خبره یارو هم هر چی تو کشو داشته رو داده بهشون گفته بیاین اینو ببرید تمومه دیگه
FPGAs are being used for quantum computers in a very critical role, as control unit that schedules all the operations of the quantum algorithm, since they can implement logic and execute it perfectly synced up to an external clock. And since quantum computers is still not exactly a mass product, nobody is bothering with dedicated chips, and sometimes not even with production FPGAs. ZedBoard development boards do work quite well.
dude the iranians still fly f-14 tomcats and 70s era aircraft in their airforce! Theres no way they are developing anything remotely like a quantum computer! its just the same pr bullshit they spew every once in a while,same as china,russia,north korea etc
Shameless plug: I work at a company (Riverlane) that's building a control system and error correction solutions for quantum computers. We use FPGAs for prototyping and deployment precisely for this reason.
I'm Iranian American and this was not only entertaining, but I love the entire breakdown and details! So happy you covered this! Especially in an entertaining way! Been following you guys for more than 10 years and you guys never disappoint! ❤ Much love
Guys Iran is Paused in 1978 while Islamic Republic is playing any Mockery of it don't offend me. We will overthrow islamic regime and a true Iran will play again. The world would me amazed and shocked would say we didn't know that Iran a progressive peace loving and a beautiful country.
I am from iran and the tech over here is intentionally bad or gatekept, the internet is no better than dial up, even using vpn won't allow access to many websites. I hope we get to have our country back.😢
@@user-op8fg3ny3j yeah but i got tired of switching between many sketchy vpns (major vpns like nord and express does not work at all) and internet drop out. It's actually time saving to pay for good internet.
In my computer engineering studies I learned with Zynq-boards how to develop and design components for a SoC with the Amba AXI interconnect bus. To do this, we rebuilt algorithms that are typically calculated with software on the CPU in the FPGA and made them usable as peripherals in the memory area. In GNU/Linux, we were then able to use the component and significantly speed up our calculations in a C program.
Basically how to give a CPU good ass steroids xD I do this for a living in Computer Science Architecture too. Erm ... I'm curious as to what these "peripherals" are tho.
@@nurashams4093 Just like their time machine and their Mach 15 HSVMs (which as a USAF 2W1, it doesn't require someone with my expertise to see the BS on that one)? It's also the easiest adversarial country to listen in via intelligence services. The going trend has been, when Iran makes a proclamation, if it's a creation that does not exist, it's 99.9% of the time complete BS. And that's only becoming more real as time has gone on due to their brain drain and methodology in science/tech.
@@the_undead i saw this in tweeter, and my Iranian friends making fun of how miss translated this, they also said it will be mess and people will criticize. Lol that really happened. They were talking about application of quantum algorithm in naval domain , not a quantum hardware. Although iran actively developing quantum communication hardware.
I'm not sure this comment will be read but I do my part: I'm from Iran, here's a little story: Years ago, for my final university project, my professor gave me a simple device to reverse engineering it. (My university wasn't fancy) it was a queue machine, the ones you press a button, and you get a number and then the machine reads out loud the number, so you know it's your time to visit the place. it was using Ethernet CAT5 cable, he mentioned they tried plugging it to a laptop and couldn't get any data from it. I was curious and took the project. turns out it was just a casual USART between two microcontrollers, but they used Ethernet cable for both power and data. so, I made a simple board to read the USUART data on the go and displayed it over a simple 4x20 Alphanumeric LCD, I also added some features like paging, memory to save etc. it looked cool too :D, I got full score for it. A month later I was invited to "Research and Developments of Universities" show, I went there and saw my project under a spotlight with this title "Network Spy Board, it can Spy and decrypt data in datalines" I was like "wha- ???". I Investigated and I realized some guy in my university wanted to get promoted and made this lie to attract some attention to himself. Usually, stuff like this happens in here. Top managers have no technical knowledge or sometimes incorrectly make the title bigger because they might get a raise. I believe that Quantum Computer thing, could be the same case. nobody looks at student projects seriously and incorrect information can easily get over news before it gets actually checked. yes, it's a downside and I am criticizing it Aswell, I'm an electronics teacher, I've done actions to fix things. to be fair it's a 40-year-old government (for instance united states has been for 200+ years.) Every human is free to say their point of view or anything they like to say, that's what I always say in my classes. I'm a big of your channel, I wanted to explain how big mistakes like this happens. For instance, the covid device was BS :D no doubt about it, but this isn't always the case. And ofc in every nation there are bad people, they exist. I respect the time you guys invested for this video and it was a good video, Keep rocking 🌹
Hey LTT, Great Video about FPGA‘s, shoutout to the writing team for explaining such a rather difficult concept like an FPGA in simple terms. I just finished my bachelors thesis about that topic and it felt really cool that you guys made a video about that topic. Now I finally have a good quality video to show to my friends that explains the basic concepts of an FPGA in simple terms as I often struggle to explain these basic concepts 😅
The temperature thing is only necessary for some architectures, a fully optical quantum processor is room temperature, and the rubidium atomic processors are actually very hot, they literally boil rubidium atoms and then capture them in place with a laser trap; its one of the less expensive methods. (Still very expensive)
@hiddenaether3232 Yes, the idea that quantum computers have to be super cooled is not true. I write the way I write and talk the way I talk so that you can understand me, not to impress you.
Those atomic traps actually are a lot cooler than those bulky He dilution fridges (usually reaching a couple hundred of mili Kelvin). A typical MOT (magneto optical trap) can reach nano Kelvin range, which is the coldest in the entire universe!
Just wanted to add something about the emulation. The larger FPGAs (eg v2000t, vu440, vu19p, vp1902) are designed for emulating new designs (eg new gpu/cpu designs) rather than older ones. The larger FPGAs replace BRAM/URAM with LUTs (and also trading faster I/O for more "slower" I/O) because that's what's needed for ASIC emulation
Thanks for raising awareness on Iran's brain drainage problem. There is little hope for smart people to achieve success in here, fearing they might anger some official
Nah, it's worse than that. _Way worse:_ 1. they leave = Iranian brain drain | 2. they stay = politically persecuted by the Ayatollah and his clerical hardliners | 3. they land cushy jobs at Tehran = get killed by drone strikes
One thing you didn’t cover about the FPGA. It isn’t like a generic processor. You program it using a hardware description language. That is, an FPGA can literally take the form of whatever digital logic gate configuration you need. When we program an FPGA, we don’t program software, we describe hardware configurations.
Zynq7000 SoC is widely used in the defense sector, mainly in Avionics. They are used from digital controllers for aerial vehicle dynamics to DSP processor for interfacing software defined radios and much more, these ICs are so cheap and so versatile its easy to find them everywhere...
A research project I did in Uni used a similar board as a test bed for validating processor designs. So you could bake the logic gates of the processor onto the board and then run specification checks to validate the design before you send it to be built. Cool to see these kinds of board highlighted here.
Every computer engineer has an FPGA class as a rite of passage. I still have the 32-bit CPU I designed and got working on a Nexys FPGA board. The minute I saw the board and the stereotypical dev board layout I laughed expecting something more advanced and not like something loaned out to bored undergrads in uni.
@@chiragpatil2052 My university didn't have an FPGA class unfortunately. I'm thinking of getting one of those boards and taking an online course on them, I'd love to learn more about them.
FPGA emulation is a little more nuanced. While it IS possible to implement a transistor-for-transistor recreation based on a decapped chip die, to my knowledge, almost every current instance of FPGA emulation is done using black-box reverse engineering: attempting to recreate the behavior of the system based on its inputs and outputs. So it is not a 1:1 recreation, and still a "best guess". Running on an FPGA doesn't instantly make it a perfect recreation: it is still only as good as the code it's running. It is still emulation, just hardware emulation rather than software. Both are awesome, and each has their own advantages.
And to be clear, this isn't me talking down on it. FPGA hardware emulation is so cool. I love the mister project, and have huge respect for the analogue devs. But it IS hardware emulation, despite what some marketing says, and it is NOT perfect recreations of systems. I have encountered and reported many a bug on my analogue systems. So much incredible stuff has been done with fpgas, and I'm excited for when we do get real transistor-for-transistor core recreations on them
I don't know for sure, but the SNES platform, including most or all of its expansions, should be doable on a 1:1 level because I believe nearly every chip was decapped and/or fully dumped by Dr. Decapinator back when Byuu/Near was developing BSNES. I know that's a rarity in this realm, though. This process did show what you're talking about regarding "black box" behavior. For example, the software version of SuperFX ran twice the speed it was supposed to and had other timing issues that weren't fully apparent until an accurate version was written.
An actual quantum computer of that size anytime in the next several decades would pretty much get the inventor all the Nobel prizes for the rest of time.
As a fellow software engineer Iranian (which recently moved to the UK to work) I must add that these shenanigans are sadly because of a regime that is too currupt to hire actual scientists and engineers (or facilitate the country for them to thrive) yet they wanna show off to the world about the advancements that they never made. The trend is that when something new happens, they will show something fake about it. When covid came along they claimed that they quickly made a covid detector. When chat gpt came along, a stupid person told the president that python can predict the future. The list goes on and on! There are many more, even more hilarious things that haven't been globally pressed. Next time something new comes along or a breakthrough happens in the field of technology, be ready for some more funny announcements from them!
Reminds me a few years ago about that obvious mockup the Iranian government was insisting was an operational stealth fighter, and the "advanced modern fighter jets" that turn out to be modified derivates of old mid-Cold War-era F-5s.
It's too bad what's happening in the Iranian government. I've never been, but I have only heard good things about the Iranian people. I hope things can get better over there. Love from the US
Be careful what you say. Iran's global secret police force is always watching with the use of their quantum computer time machines built into old DeLoreans.
I worked on a graduation project in early 2000s with a unique professor to program FPGA hardware. It uses a language called VHDL, a programming language for that. Sadly he left our college at early stages and the project was cancelled.
As an Iranian that recently fled from that dictatorship and came here to Canada, I really enjoyed how you mentioned all these bogus inventions and devices from IR Govt AS WELL as the migration (brain drain) problem that is in place ever since the 1979 revolution.
How do you feel being a traitor to your ppl and one of the most powerful and independent gov of the world and fleeing to land that is stolen from native ppl and built over millions of massacred bodies of Native Americans?
This is the exact board used in my "ECE3710 - Computer Design Laboratory " class at university. We built a processor from the ground up in software, super awesome class!
Kind of sad you didn't fully mention the amazing nature of having an FPGA and an ARM SoC on a single package, this allows to have a more easy and feature rich chip because you can install Linux* into an external memory an run it with the ARM PS while also having integrated custom logic solutions at your disposal FROM LINUX thanks to the PL
What's even more cool is that you can create a soft-cpu in the programmable logic and then run Linux on that! You can literally design your own CPU in hardware and run Linux on it (If you are extremely skilled)
@@cheesepie4ever That's not a feature. That would be extremely expensive on the PL side. From working on a research team developing FPGA overlays for safety critical systems, you want to run as light as possible and save your PL side just for compute and acceleration. Keep the PS stuff on the discrete hardware, it's cheaper and better for performance.
@@johnbrooks7350 Soft core CPUs ARE used in the industry - look at Neon, Microblaze etc. They can be used for system monitoring, control + coordination for eg DMA, security, redundancy etc. Softcore CPUs also aren't necessarily that expensive on the PL side either - in order of less than 1000 LUTs. I agree you generally wouldn't use a softcore Linux - it is achievable and a cool exercise - but not something that would be done in many professional situations. Although I have heard of it being done in rare situations
@@cheesepie4ever sorry for the misunderstanding, my work is mainly focused in the embedded side of things where usually you want the PS side to be running your RTOS systems and such and PL is usually for your high performance signal processing and such.
@@johnbrooks7350 That is cool! Do you work with Zynq MPsoc? My work has been on the FPGA side only but my company let me do a course on MPSoc and it does seem really cool! Although petalinux seems pretty evil to learn for the first time haha, maybe you don't need to deal with that if you're working on the real time stuff?
Hey all, an Iranian here - living in Toronto. The covid detector was a major joke that we were all circulating in our group chats at the time, and the Quantum Board was also a laughing matter in the community. Iranians laugh at their government, and I'm quite glad that LMG has done a piece on the Iranian government's "Innovations"! Don't get me wrong, Iranians do have innovations, but mostly despite the government and not because of it, and lots of these innovations happen outside the country. Currently there's an uprising of people in Iran under the "Woman, life, freedom" movement and regular folks want a regular government where they can thrive and live a normal life, and have access to youtube to potentially watch LMG content 😊
Linus I'm iranian and when I first saw the news of this I was cringing and laughing so hard. Not the first time the goverment tries to bullshit the world but ends up completely embrassing themselves. I did not expect you doing a video on this. Thank you for this gem of a video. P.S. I wheezed at the "I RAN" joke even though its pronounced "E Run"
E raahn* *** It is in fact a true "I" vowel in the word 'Iran', but most English dialects will pronounce that as "Aye", while a true E vowel would be "eh"
Do they really think they are that much more intelligent than everyone else and can fool the rest of the world or have the leaders themselves been fooled and actually believe it?
Iran's attempt at a 5th Generation fighter jet, the Qaher-313, was also very funny. It was a plastic mockup that looked like a cheap copy of an F-22, that was probably big enough to convince someone who doesn't know better, but too small to realistically fly, carry weapons or even for most people to sit in. It had tiny air intakes, implausible aerodynamics, and would have most likely shown up very clearly on radar, as it seems it was more focused on looking cool than actual stealth. It also had no weapons bays, no jet nozzles, a tire pressure that would be too low to actually hold a fully-loaded fighter plane, and a very basic cockpit filled with cheap off-the-shelf avionics taken from a civilian turboprop aircraft. Their "flight demo" was a poor-quality video of what was almost certainly an RC plane, that didn't actually show it taking off or landing. Last I saw, they've actually given up on the fighter thing and are going to make it into an unmanned drone instead, which seems to be a bit of an admission of defeat on their part.
I used these FPGAs in university lol… not quantum but they’re pretty awesome for learning about simple SoC design or complex circuit design and how to minimize inefficiencies in SoC logic on the fly. Thanks for taking the time to cover this, I’m really enjoying these videos. VHDL or Verilog sucks and it’s great. 😅
@@TheCrazyCanuck420currently working a VHDL job, I learned both VHDL and verilog in uni just a couple years ago. VHDL is still widely used in security/defence applications
50 years ago the Shah of Iran called Canada a cold village with no drinking water. Now a Canadian lumberjack is making fun of a country that is run by a bunch of Mullah sent off to Iran by the West.
Looks like nonsense rank, epaulette shows 1 Fat-star with 3 Bars Aurum. A small star usually denotes General rank, increasing in number up to 5. A bar marks a junior (Commissioned-) Officer increasing to 3 bars, marking a Captain. In the USA, their ranks are marked with a bronze bar, upranking to 1 silver bar, and then 2 silver bars. In rare circumstances a rank above 5 Stars (5 Stars itself is virtually inexistent until active war) would be 1 Giant emblem of some significance to the territory, followed by a minor addition usually an underscore of wings or laurel. Those are the Field Marshal and Grand Marshal ranks. Given what's on Linus' shoulder,... Captain General Marshal 🤪
As an iranian, I wanna thank Linus for this video, but I would also like to add to something he said. A few years ago, the iranian government started re-issuing new national IDs(idk what they're officially called so I did my best in translation). Long story short, the population of Iran is around 80 million, and nearly 190 million people registered for the new ID. This means that more than half of the Iranians alive on this planet don't even live in Iran. It makes me sad but it is unfortunately true.
That's wild. Where are they mostly located ? Because 110 million people can take over many countries. I doubt that information is accurate, maybe a failure in the system or some government shenanigans.
How is that sad? They could be living in some of the best places of this planet with the best conditions and opportunities. Don’t just assume people wanna be where they were born.
Let’s not follow the example of Iran’s government and pull numbers and statements out of hat. There aren’t 110M iranian outside of iran. There are more reliable sources to check for this. That 190M application probably was due to some other government f.. up or fraudulent.
@@aedaldaniel maybe the wording wasn't great from my part. It is sad that we were forced to leave because of the government. Iran is a beautiful country with rich traditions, amazing food, and great history. There are a lot of brilliant minds that are born in that country everyday. I'll tell you from having gone to school both in Iran and in the US, there are relatively more smart people in Iran than in the US. With all of those things, nobody would ever want to leave there if it weren't for the politics. It is sad because we have no other choice.
Both Microsoft and Google have Quantum programming libraries that run on your standard computer. They basically emulate some parts of a quantum computer. Though not very likely, perhaps this board was used to act as a very efficient quantum emulator for development
Simulating qubits is at least quadratic time complexity. Those compilers and FPGAs can only simulate a handful of them at once - which is only good for experimental/learning purposes.
@@vinno97 An FPGA is not magically faster than a specialized CPU. It's main point is that it can basically emulate different types of ASICs, not that it's some supercomputer of its own.
That's probably what was told to immediate senior of the researcher but multilple people in the chain of command probably exagerated the "quantumness" and the the message that reach the HQ was "WE HAVE WORKING SUPERCOMPUTER!!!"😂😂😂
Hardware dev here. I am quite impressed that Linus presents an fpga board here. Normally they gonna used in embedded prototyping projects such as cameras or image processors
Same, very impressed. FPGA's are very complex, have wide applications and are notoriously difficult to comprehend. Have seen them used mostly in projectors and other video platforms, haven't really thought about the application in emulation, very nice!
@janus3555 you probably used the auto translation so it sounds legit but his comment in persian was completely sarcastic. we're all so fed up with our government's BS aswell.
So, am I the only one who expected Linus to actually do something with the FPGA? It's neat that they bought one but if Linus was just going to hold it you could've just put up a screenshot of the board's webpage.
2 seconds after i finished watching this i walked by my coworker's desk and he had this exact board sitting on his desk. Apparently one of our zync-7000 based products needed a bug fix in its FPGA logic.
I have multiple SOCs from the 2010's from my time as a computer engineering student and they're awesome devices cable of so much. I was able to build a multicore processor on them and while it's speed isn't anything even close to an Intel or AMD processor, it's still really fun to play with.
This is just a small part of the lies spread by the regime's media, which may be funny for foreigners, but it has become very painful for us who live in Iran. Thanks for video Love from Iran ❤
This whole video makes me embarrassed to call myself Iranian. Meanwhile, I'm happy to see more people are realizing that the Iranian regime is not in any way representing its people.
Ironically, that "basic dev board" is more advanced than the ones currently being used to control satellites. The average level of processing power on most new launches is probably around the level of a first-generation Pentium. As in, 60 MHz core clock Pentium.
I mean, they do have very strict energy consumption constraints. Makes sense that they run bare minimum hardware. Plus, getting rid of the heat generated by hardware in space is way more complicated than plopping in a regular heatsink. I guess they want as few thermal waste as possible.
A lot of space hardware uses special radiation hardened process nodes, which haven't shrunk as fast as conventional ones (think ~50-100nm for the latest fully rad hardened ones).
I AM watching from iran 🤣🤣🤣 I love ltt you have fan every ware in iran even in my university any computer nerd know your wonder full teem even though its very hard to watch youtube because of internet censorship I learn a ton from your channel 😊
I work from home and my friend came into my room one day and saw the ZedBoard I was using for work. He said "is the iran's new quantum computer" i was dumbfounded when he showed me the source lol. Anyways he led me here too. Yeah FPGAs are cool, and Iran is wildin.
As an Iranian living abroad, I can confirm the brain drain is much more significant than one would think. What it also means is that the smart people who are in Iran are under even more oppression as they wouldn't want to help the government with their whack endeavours.
I work for a business where we sell products well in the $100k price per unit range where the entire setup’s heart is a custom Zerboard inspired, Zynq 7000-based board. The CPU is not there to do general purpose stuff, but rather to configure and monitor the hardware connected to the board and programmed into the FPGA, so raw computing power is not the most sought after metric. The dual core is just fine for what it needs to do. And it’s all there for the FPGA, where we do the real grunt work. The board is rather cheap for what it can do, other qualities matter for us; for e.g. in such applications, where the warranty we offer to the customer is always 10 years minimum, the fact that this board is guaranteed to be produced, sold, and supported by the manufacturer for the next 20 years or so is what counts a lot for us. Think about your run of the mill PC and tell me whether you think that is going to be sold in the same exact SKU 5 years for now. No, right, so “regular” stuff just doesn’t cut it here.
Wow really? I have had problems with some of their products, mainly with their APIs. Sometimes they are Windows only, which makes it a pain, or are developed purely in C and make it unintuitive to use them in other programming languages.
FPGA's are super cool for learning chip design! And there are some very cheap dev kits everyone could afford and try out, like ice40 dev boards or gw1n boards. These could go from 5 to 50 buck, and you can do some cool hobby projects with them. I discovered FPGA's back in 2016 and that was down the rabbit hole experience
ICE40HX is probably the cheapest you can buy. Under 10$ a piece in TQ144. Ran some demo Verilog on it to compare it to Xlinx 7 series ecosystem. While Xilinx wins hands down in all aspects other than power, it's still the cheapest glue logic you can buy. Spartan6/Spartan7 are way pricier and Intel is out of the budget race here. You can use one with a microcontroller to improve it's capabilities(solve hardware bugs in hardware,outside the microcontroller).
@@whatever2144 Well, I got gw1n with 9k logic (i don't remember lut or cell equivalent) in 144 package for about 3$. Got a discount for helping fae out with lectures. Spartans were a thing, especially ones with transceivers. But Xilinx bumped the price like 50% back in covid times, so imo they lost cost advantage too. I no longer do the hardware itself, can't speak with metal in voice. Right now, the only fpga I use is virtex for cpu ip validation at work...
We used FPGA's in some of my engineering courses for studying digital logic and design. They are awesome but they get really complex. That HDL is no joke. My professor was actually the CEO of diligent before they were sold.
Apparently Iran's tech industry is the equivalent of that kid on the playground who can totally hit a home run every time if he really wanted to, but nobody has ever seen him play baseball.
Those fpga boards are used for different kind of things. To test rtl code before tape out of an asic. Or to develop ai processors next to regulat arm processors. These zynq boards are a very useful product to group the strengths of hw acceleration and cpu power in one platform ;)
These FPGAs are very well suited for simulation of quantam based algortihms. As a matter of fact, till this date it is the cheapest approach to simulate a quantum kernel and capture its runtime hyperparameters. Unless you wanna spend govt money on a massive 10bn dollar cryogenic lab , the hybrid cpu-fpga approach is pretty economical and effective. In my city (Kolkata, India), a company called TCG (The Chatterjee Group) is on a project of developing a 3qbit chip , and they are using this approach widely, in their operations to validate their hardware definition logic before actually moving into fab stage.
Great explanation of some pretty esoteric concepts, including global politics! FPGAs are tough to get across; I like to say that normal programming is creating a sequence of instructions that _does_ something, but FPGA programming is describing hardware that _is_ something; everything happens in parallel, at the logic gate level.
8:10 They could have been talking about qubit emulation, which is absolutely a thing. (Basically, emulating a quantum computer, usually at much slower speeds.) But still, yes, that's a very old board. 😆
Can't wait for the first quantum cpu dropped by Linus
Won't all quantum CPUs be simultaneously dropped and not dropped by Linus?
@@KyurekiHanait will be on both states until you open your eyes
it will be a another clip for the linus drop tips which we want!
@@freshiegods bro is waiting for the real shit here 🔥💯
@@ilovefunnyamv2ndSchrodinger's Linus
I legitimately thought that when this was mentioned on WAN show, it was a joke. I didn't realize they were actually serious. Incredible.
Jk
In what episode of WAN SHOW?
It was the last one I think
You should also see Iran’s new attack helicopter👍
Unfortunately, our lives under the rule of the Islamic Republic is so absurd that much of it could sound like a joke to people living in normal countries.
A nice thing about FPGAs is that everything is parallel by default. There's no instruction pipeline, unless you implement one in the hardware. Since there's no OS, there's nothing to crash, unless the whole thing just burns out.
not really,
FPGAs are vulnerable to all kind of glitches in Sequential or even Combinational logic
@@scotty4338even Intel does, well, all the time 😂
Iranian Gov: "We built a quantum computer"
Linus: "So anyway, I bought it of Ebay"
most of them didn't even graduated high school they are bunch of re*ards
MKBHD: So I've been tinkering with Iran's quantum computer for around 2 weeks now..."
It's a quantum processing algorithm.
Iran did not say that it's a quantum processor. They admitted that it jus uses quantum algorithms. Btw our drones also use american technology. Its hard to build sth like this from scratch. Its reasonable to buy
*off of. Ahhh eBay, the place where you can find anything and everything, including dangerous chemicals
Fun fact: Diligent is owned by a man who is a professor at Washington State University. We used similar boards as learning devices for our embedded systems classes there. I wouldn't be surprised if this was targeted as either a demo board or an educational board for basic I/O control through the SoC.
Fun fact: -Diligent- Digilent
non fun fact: i didn t read ths
*was
I'm in Ohio and I just did an entire class developing on this board
@@someonerandom704 I'm also in Ohio, at Case, we use a mix of really out of date Terra FPGA boards based on some Altera chip, and slightly less out of date Pynq boards that are more similar to this one, with both arm cores and Zynq FPGAs
This is actually extremely advanced technology for Iran.. I'm genuinely impressed
If it’s quantum, doesn’t that mean that it’s constantly in a state of being dropped at the same time that linus is holding it?
Absolutely correct
Well, until it’s being observed
We dont know until we watch the video.
It 's a quantum processing algorithm, they mistakingly announced it that way and then corrected it later.
Yese
So Linus went from CEO to El Presidente. I approve.
😂 🙇♂️
Viva Maximum Leader Lunis!
You mean el duce
i aladeen this message
Le presidənt
Being a lead architect designer and FPGA programmer for the past 15 years. its quit fun to see it presented in a (I mean no disrespect) tech channel for common people and explained in a way that makes sense. I always have a hard time explaining what it is I do for a living becuase im not a software programmer as such. And im not just a hardware designer.
How to become like you?
@@PrashantMishra-kh1xt study electrical engineering.
Never thought of the terminology for FPGAs. I guess you could claim that you're a hardware programmer lol
Megumin staring at the viewers for half the video while clearly being disappointed in us was the best part of the watching experience
That was megumin back there on the board?
Isn't that just Linus put through an anime girl filter?
@@karola.7908
If they let Linus handle explosives the results would be similar.
@@karola.7908 no shes a character from an anime called konosuba
ILOVEmegumin - kazuma
It’s cool seeing Linus talk about FPGAs on the channel. We need more industrial automation and embedded systems content like this
I bet 99 percent of the ltt viewers will never use that stuff.
Yes, because most of them have rtx4090s /s
Most people don't care about that stuff, and never will, because it's useless for them. For us, embedded developers it's something common. Imagine the shock of his viewers if he was to show what PLC is. And how much they can cost
Man, it's always nice seeing embedded people get represented
@@maksgrabowy9842 tbf it _is_ ludicrous how much they can cost relative to the cost of the main chip
We're so happy that someone FINALLY unlocked all the features and power of our classic Zedboard!
This zionist shill who went to Apartheid Israel last year, makes a fake video based on anti-iran propaganda. Iran said it was running quantum algorithms (just software), not quantum computing or quantum hardware. This video is a great sample of anti-Iran desperate propaganda.
Used these in school courses, and ended up making a lot of fun projects with them. If only the secret quantum features had been unlocked earlier, maybe us computer engineering students would be learning how to make time machines instead of CPUs :)
Time travel isn't possible, doesn't matter what type of computing power you have available. It's hilarious, people really think they can travel 🎉in time when there wouldn't be anything to travel to. What, you think only people move forward with the passing of time, so does everything else. If you traveled back in time you would find an empty void, because the rest of the universe isn't there anymore. If you traveled forward, the same void, as the rest of the universe isn't there yet. Nevermind particle preoccupation. If the rest of the universe WAS there, so would be the atoms you are made of. If you traveled to a different time the particles you consist of are doing something else, so as you traveled to a destination time, your particles from that time would have to travel to your origin time to compensate, and this would mean at the median time between the destination and origin time those two sets of identical atoms would need to coexist in the same moment as they passed each other in the timeline... which is not possible. THEN there's production and distribution of reorientation energy. To move something through time you are talking about reorienting every atom, every sub atomic particle, every yet to be discovered sub sub atomic and super sub atomic particle, which would take a tremendous amount of energy. In fact, reorientating every particle in the universe would take more energy than there is IN our universe, again, rendering time travel impossible.
So take it from a guy from 2152, time travel is ABSOLUTELY impossible...
...well, I didn't say anything about quantum phase shifting between quantum variants of Earth that are at different points along their respective timelines, now did I? That, bow that IS ENTIRELY possible.
@@godchi1dvonsteuben770You really need to stop crying on the internet dude.
@@godchi1dvonsteuben770 people who have traveled in time most likely isnt going to ever comment and say hey I did... You make assumptions... It is possible...
Your just a fish in a bowl... Stay in there sheep...
Damn. As an Iranian we been laughing at this for the past couple of weeks but never thought it would become a LTT video. To be honest when the news came up it was so stupid that I was skeptical of how stupid they can be to say something like that so I did a little research and it seems that they never in fact claimed to have made a quantum computer. I didn't watch the full presentation but from the few picture I have seen it's even written on the board "quantum algorithm" not quantum computer and I assume it's some kind of simulation algorithm that they have implemented.
The mistake could be on the officials who made it by saying wrong stuff during the announcement or by other people that were equally under informed about the whole thing that they mistakenly assumed they have mistaken! As I said I didn't deemed the news worthy of my time to check the video of the presentation and I don't think it's even available but those were my own assumptions!
Maybe I'm the one making the mistake of assuming others making a mistake!
پروژه رو قبلتر یکی از خبرگزاری ها برای شروع اعلام کرده بوده با بودجه 24 میلیون دلار بعد از چند ماه که مثلا به سرانجام رسیده ما اینارو دیدیم، یعنی نه تنها این مسئله خیلی مسخره و احمقانه بوده، بلکه اونی که داشته بودجه رو تعیین میکرده و کار رو شروع میکرده هم از اول سرش کلاه رفته و کلی پول رو هدر داده، 24 میلیون دلار بودجه پرداخت شده یه تحقیق کوچیک نکردن، یه تیم نیاوردن به عنوان کارشناس همراه باشه باهاشون، دو بار بازرسی نرفتن، کلا یه روز همین جوری گفتن بریم ببینیم چه خبره یارو هم هر چی تو کشو داشته رو داده بهشون گفته بیاین اینو ببرید تمومه دیگه
ماله کش همه جا هست
yes..thats it, misslead
@@ALIREZAMOHAMMADSHAHSmells like corruption and embezzlement of funds
@@ALIREZAMOHAMMADSHAH کلا همینه مملکت. هر بار به یه شکلی بودجه میگیرن و هیچکاری نمیکنن. اون قضیه کرونا یاب هم خودش داستانی بود اگه یادت باشه
FPGAs are being used for quantum computers in a very critical role, as control unit that schedules all the operations of the quantum algorithm, since they can implement logic and execute it perfectly synced up to an external clock. And since quantum computers is still not exactly a mass product, nobody is bothering with dedicated chips, and sometimes not even with production FPGAs. ZedBoard development boards do work quite well.
They slipped up thats what there using for there development of their quantum computer.
finally, a reasonable person
dude the iranians still fly f-14 tomcats and 70s era aircraft in their airforce! Theres no way they are developing anything remotely like a quantum computer! its just the same pr bullshit they spew every once in a while,same as china,russia,north korea etc
I'm sure Linus said this already in this video not just as detailed though but you can get the gist of it. 😮
Shameless plug: I work at a company (Riverlane) that's building a control system and error correction solutions for quantum computers. We use FPGAs for prototyping and deployment precisely for this reason.
Strange UA-cam recommend me this at the current moment...
I'm Iranian American and this was not only entertaining, but I love the entire breakdown and details! So happy you covered this! Especially in an entertaining way! Been following you guys for more than 10 years and you guys never disappoint! ❤ Much love
khak bar sare iran konan ke hata linus ham maskharash kard dige :))
@@edthepurple entezare ino nadashtam ,🤧
Iranian poontang the best
Just out of curiosity, are you a part of the brain drain, or did you end up there due to other reasons? =)
Guys Iran is Paused in 1978 while Islamic Republic is playing any Mockery of it don't offend me. We will overthrow islamic regime and a true Iran will play again. The world would me amazed and shocked would say we didn't know that Iran a progressive peace loving and a beautiful country.
iran : meet our quantum computer
2011 : *picks up phone to call iran*
I am from iran and the tech over here is intentionally bad or gatekept, the internet is no better than dial up, even using vpn won't allow access to many websites. I hope we get to have our country back.😢
@@ArminHills then how are you using YT?
@@user-op8fg3ny3j I have a turkish number with cellular.
@@ArminHills data roaming charges must be expensive
@@user-op8fg3ny3j yeah but i got tired of switching between many sketchy vpns (major vpns like nord and express does not work at all) and internet drop out. It's actually time saving to pay for good internet.
In my computer engineering studies I learned with Zynq-boards how to develop and design components for a SoC with the Amba AXI interconnect bus. To do this, we rebuilt algorithms that are typically calculated with software on the CPU in the FPGA and made them usable as peripherals in the memory area. In GNU/Linux, we were then able to use the component and significantly speed up our calculations in a C program.
I understood none of it but I feel like this is some cool shit. So, I feel happy for you. Weird, I just feel it 😂
Basically how to give a CPU good ass steroids xD I do this for a living in Computer Science Architecture too. Erm ... I'm curious as to what these "peripherals" are tho.
I have never laughed so hard when I saw that announcement cause they showed the board we use at my college to teach digital circuit logic.
Thats a mislead. they announced quantum algorithm for naval application, this board is symbolic hardware, thats was on the presentation poster.
Watch, the only claim Iran is going to have been correct about is the time machine.
@@nurashams4093 Just like their time machine and their Mach 15 HSVMs (which as a USAF 2W1, it doesn't require someone with my expertise to see the BS on that one)? It's also the easiest adversarial country to listen in via intelligence services.
The going trend has been, when Iran makes a proclamation, if it's a creation that does not exist, it's 99.9% of the time complete BS. And that's only becoming more real as time has gone on due to their brain drain and methodology in science/tech.
@@nurashams4093 I still highly doubt what Iran has claimed here
@@the_undead i saw this in tweeter, and my Iranian friends making fun of how miss translated this, they also said it will be mess and people will criticize. Lol that really happened.
They were talking about application of quantum algorithm in naval domain , not a quantum hardware.
Although iran actively developing quantum communication hardware.
I'm not sure this comment will be read but I do my part:
I'm from Iran, here's a little story: Years ago, for my final university project, my professor gave me a simple device to reverse engineering it. (My university wasn't fancy) it was a queue machine, the ones you press a button, and you get a number and then the machine reads out loud the number, so you know it's your time to visit the place. it was using Ethernet CAT5 cable, he mentioned they tried plugging it to a laptop and couldn't get any data from it. I was curious and took the project. turns out it was just a casual USART between two microcontrollers, but they used Ethernet cable for both power and data. so, I made a simple board to read the USUART data on the go and displayed it over a simple 4x20 Alphanumeric LCD, I also added some features like paging, memory to save etc. it looked cool too :D, I got full score for it.
A month later I was invited to "Research and Developments of Universities" show, I went there and saw my project under a spotlight with this title "Network Spy Board, it can Spy and decrypt data in datalines" I was like "wha- ???". I Investigated and I realized some guy in my university wanted to get promoted and made this lie to attract some attention to himself.
Usually, stuff like this happens in here. Top managers have no technical knowledge or sometimes incorrectly make the title bigger because they might get a raise. I believe that Quantum Computer thing, could be the same case. nobody looks at student projects seriously and incorrect information can easily get over news before it gets actually checked. yes, it's a downside and I am criticizing it Aswell, I'm an electronics teacher, I've done actions to fix things. to be fair it's a 40-year-old government (for instance united states has been for 200+ years.)
Every human is free to say their point of view or anything they like to say, that's what I always say in my classes. I'm a big of your channel, I wanted to explain how big mistakes like this happens. For instance, the covid device was BS :D no doubt about it, but this isn't always the case. And ofc in every nation there are bad people, they exist.
I respect the time you guys invested for this video and it was a good video, Keep rocking 🌹
Aint reading allat
@@gunzooo0you should it was a pretty good explanation
حاجی دمت گرم
Makes very much sense
Respect.
They missed a chance to make "We played Super Mario on Iran's Quantum Computer" a clickbait title that would actually earn it's name.
As an iranian i can confirm we traveled in time to about 1400 years ago .. not gonna lie
هعی
هعبی
کسکش بی شرف
حق
Yah Islam is to blame
Hey LTT,
Great Video about FPGA‘s, shoutout to the writing team for explaining such a rather difficult concept like an FPGA in simple terms. I just finished my bachelors thesis about that topic and it felt really cool that you guys made a video about that topic.
Now I finally have a good quality video to show to my friends that explains the basic concepts of an FPGA in simple terms as I often struggle to explain these basic concepts 😅
They've made better videos on FPGAs
ASK Chatgpt to write a easy to understand essay about it & voila :D
I actually just finished an entire FPGAs class where I used this exact chip. This was crazy to see.
My bachelor's final year project was designing an Xilinx FPGA....not writing about them. 💥😭
The temperature thing is only necessary for some architectures, a fully optical quantum processor is room temperature, and the rubidium atomic processors are actually very hot, they literally boil rubidium atoms and then capture them in place with a laser trap; its one of the less expensive methods. (Still very expensive)
What about the 12CQ carbon based cubit processor from Archer? Is that pipedream or real stuff?
temperature... "thing"???
@hiddenaether3232
Yes, the idea that quantum computers have to be super cooled is not true.
I write the way I write and talk the way I talk so that you can understand me, not to impress you.
Those atomic traps actually are a lot cooler than those bulky He dilution fridges (usually reaching a couple hundred of mili Kelvin). A typical MOT (magneto optical trap) can reach nano Kelvin range, which is the coldest in the entire universe!
Just wanted to add something about the emulation. The larger FPGAs (eg v2000t, vu440, vu19p, vp1902) are designed for emulating new designs (eg new gpu/cpu designs) rather than older ones. The larger FPGAs replace BRAM/URAM with LUTs (and also trading faster I/O for more "slower" I/O) because that's what's needed for ASIC emulation
Thanks for raising awareness on Iran's brain drainage problem. There is little hope for smart people to achieve success in here, fearing they might anger some official
Nah, it's worse than that. _Way worse:_ 1. they leave = Iranian brain drain | 2. they stay = politically persecuted by the Ayatollah and his clerical hardliners | 3. they land cushy jobs at Tehran = get killed by drone strikes
One thing you didn’t cover about the FPGA. It isn’t like a generic processor. You program it using a hardware description language. That is, an FPGA can literally take the form of whatever digital logic gate configuration you need. When we program an FPGA, we don’t program software, we describe hardware configurations.
Zynq7000 SoC is widely used in the defense sector, mainly in Avionics. They are used from digital controllers for aerial vehicle dynamics to DSP processor for interfacing software defined radios and much more, these ICs are so cheap and so versatile its easy to find them everywhere...
Hope it doesn't find YOU, kind of things
A research project I did in Uni used a similar board as a test bed for validating processor designs. So you could bake the logic gates of the processor onto the board and then run specification checks to validate the design before you send it to be built. Cool to see these kinds of board highlighted here.
Every computer engineer has an FPGA class as a rite of passage. I still have the 32-bit CPU I designed and got working on a Nexys FPGA board. The minute I saw the board and the stereotypical dev board layout I laughed expecting something more advanced and not like something loaned out to bored undergrads in uni.
@@chiragpatil2052 My university didn't have an FPGA class unfortunately. I'm thinking of getting one of those boards and taking an online course on them, I'd love to learn more about them.
As an Iranian, thanks about covering this topic❤
FPGA emulation is a little more nuanced. While it IS possible to implement a transistor-for-transistor recreation based on a decapped chip die, to my knowledge, almost every current instance of FPGA emulation is done using black-box reverse engineering: attempting to recreate the behavior of the system based on its inputs and outputs. So it is not a 1:1 recreation, and still a "best guess". Running on an FPGA doesn't instantly make it a perfect recreation: it is still only as good as the code it's running. It is still emulation, just hardware emulation rather than software. Both are awesome, and each has their own advantages.
And to be clear, this isn't me talking down on it. FPGA hardware emulation is so cool. I love the mister project, and have huge respect for the analogue devs. But it IS hardware emulation, despite what some marketing says, and it is NOT perfect recreations of systems. I have encountered and reported many a bug on my analogue systems.
So much incredible stuff has been done with fpgas, and I'm excited for when we do get real transistor-for-transistor core recreations on them
@@ShankModsone of the few cases where transistor level emulation is likely is some 6502 emulators, considering we have the visual 6502 stuff.
I don't know for sure, but the SNES platform, including most or all of its expansions, should be doable on a 1:1 level because I believe nearly every chip was decapped and/or fully dumped by Dr. Decapinator back when Byuu/Near was developing BSNES. I know that's a rarity in this realm, though. This process did show what you're talking about regarding "black box" behavior. For example, the software version of SuperFX ran twice the speed it was supposed to and had other timing issues that weren't fully apparent until an accurate version was written.
Hey shankmods! I love your stuff!!
It's more like logic emulation as FPGA chips don't go quite as far as the transistor level
An actual quantum computer of that size anytime in the next several decades would pretty much get the inventor all the Nobel prizes for the rest of time.
there are already quantum computers of that size....
@@Miguel_Noether Yes, but the cooler is the size of your house.
@@cmdrsocks photonic quantum computers don't even need coolers....
@@Miguel_Noether Oh, do provide a source, I dare you...
@@Miguel_Noether We're still waiting on your source.
im following linus for a long time as an iranian it so cool to see this
Tell me about the war.
@@GreenNutGuy well i dont listen to news about that it safe YET
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LTT is convincing all of us normal PC enthusiasts to watch ever more obscure and geekier content.
As a fellow software engineer Iranian (which recently moved to the UK to work) I must add that these shenanigans are sadly because of a regime that is too currupt to hire actual scientists and engineers (or facilitate the country for them to thrive) yet they wanna show off to the world about the advancements that they never made.
The trend is that when something new happens, they will show something fake about it.
When covid came along they claimed that they quickly made a covid detector.
When chat gpt came along, a stupid person told the president that python can predict the future.
The list goes on and on! There are many more, even more hilarious things that haven't been globally pressed.
Next time something new comes along or a breakthrough happens in the field of technology, be ready for some more funny announcements from them!
Sooo a developing country with corrupt government kinda problem? Mhm yeah I relate to that
Reminds me a few years ago about that obvious mockup the Iranian government was insisting was an operational stealth fighter, and the "advanced modern fighter jets" that turn out to be modified derivates of old mid-Cold War-era F-5s.
It's too bad what's happening in the Iranian government. I've never been, but I have only heard good things about the Iranian people. I hope things can get better over there. Love from the US
Be careful what you say. Iran's global secret police force is always watching with the use of their quantum computer time machines built into old DeLoreans.
Iran has the highest scientific output in the world. How do you explain that?
I worked on a graduation project in early 2000s with a unique professor to program FPGA hardware. It uses a language called VHDL, a programming language for that. Sadly he left our college at early stages and the project was cancelled.
As an Iranian that recently fled from that dictatorship and came here to Canada, I really enjoyed how you mentioned all these bogus inventions and devices from IR Govt AS WELL as the migration (brain drain) problem that is in place ever since the 1979 revolution.
Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦!!!
How do you feel being a traitor to your ppl and one of the most powerful and independent gov of the world and fleeing to land that is stolen from native ppl and built over millions of massacred bodies of Native Americans?
@@DMSparky It wasn't "that" recent 😅 but thanks
you are so lucky we are stuck in this hell hole
This is the exact board used in my "ECE3710 - Computer Design Laboratory " class at university. We built a processor from the ground up in software, super awesome class!
That feeling when Linus is talking about your job, telling people what actually you doing with that FPGA
imagine 512GB ram on that small board!
Quantum RAM will be better than that.
Coming soon
@@danielBAC well isnt ram always quantum? i mean its in a constant state between functional and non functional.
Kind of sad you didn't fully mention the amazing nature of having an FPGA and an ARM SoC on a single package, this allows to have a more easy and feature rich chip because you can install Linux* into an external memory an run it with the ARM PS while also having integrated custom logic solutions at your disposal FROM LINUX thanks to the PL
What's even more cool is that you can create a soft-cpu in the programmable logic and then run Linux on that! You can literally design your own CPU in hardware and run Linux on it (If you are extremely skilled)
@@cheesepie4ever That's not a feature. That would be extremely expensive on the PL side. From working on a research team developing FPGA overlays for safety critical systems, you want to run as light as possible and save your PL side just for compute and acceleration. Keep the PS stuff on the discrete hardware, it's cheaper and better for performance.
@@johnbrooks7350 Soft core CPUs ARE used in the industry - look at Neon, Microblaze etc. They can be used for system monitoring, control + coordination for eg DMA, security, redundancy etc. Softcore CPUs also aren't necessarily that expensive on the PL side either - in order of less than 1000 LUTs.
I agree you generally wouldn't use a softcore Linux - it is achievable and a cool exercise - but not something that would be done in many professional situations. Although I have heard of it being done in rare situations
@@cheesepie4ever sorry for the misunderstanding, my work is mainly focused in the embedded side of things where usually you want the PS side to be running your RTOS systems and such and PL is usually for your high performance signal processing and such.
@@johnbrooks7350 That is cool! Do you work with Zynq MPsoc? My work has been on the FPGA side only but my company let me do a course on MPSoc and it does seem really cool! Although petalinux seems pretty evil to learn for the first time haha, maybe you don't need to deal with that if you're working on the real time stuff?
As an Iranian I want to thank my amazing government for appearing on LTT. That's a great achievement.
Hey all, an Iranian here - living in Toronto. The covid detector was a major joke that we were all circulating in our group chats at the time, and the Quantum Board was also a laughing matter in the community. Iranians laugh at their government, and I'm quite glad that LMG has done a piece on the Iranian government's "Innovations"!
Don't get me wrong, Iranians do have innovations, but mostly despite the government and not because of it, and lots of these innovations happen outside the country.
Currently there's an uprising of people in Iran under the "Woman, life, freedom" movement and regular folks want a regular government where they can thrive and live a normal life, and have access to youtube to potentially watch LMG content 😊
i also live in iran, i swear there has been nothing their government made that isn't total BS
Wishing the best to you for a future democratic, free Iran.
I wish all the Iranian and Persian people freedom peace and prosperity
this comment is western propaganda.
@@cyb3ristic Where do you live?
I ran Contra on an Iranian quantum computer. Quite the affair.
i got reccomended this at the worst time possible
Linus I'm iranian and when I first saw the news of this I was cringing and laughing so hard. Not the first time the goverment tries to bullshit the world but ends up completely embrassing themselves. I did not expect you doing a video on this. Thank you for this gem of a video.
P.S. I wheezed at the "I RAN" joke even though its pronounced "E Run"
E raahn*
*** It is in fact a true "I" vowel in the word 'Iran', but most English dialects will pronounce that as "Aye", while a true E vowel would be "eh"
@@0FFICERPROBLEM please
Do they really think they are that much more intelligent than everyone else and can fool the rest of the world or have the leaders themselves been fooled and actually believe it?
@@0FFICERPROBLEMyeh true, the way we're taught the vowels here in Africa (A E I O U) in primary school, the I is like "eeh" not "aye".
Yeah I hate it when people pronounce it I RAN.
I thought this was a joke, but no, they were dead serious, and it's glorious
It's false, they never made a statement of developing quantum computers
Iran's attempt at a 5th Generation fighter jet, the Qaher-313, was also very funny. It was a plastic mockup that looked like a cheap copy of an F-22, that was probably big enough to convince someone who doesn't know better, but too small to realistically fly, carry weapons or even for most people to sit in. It had tiny air intakes, implausible aerodynamics, and would have most likely shown up very clearly on radar, as it seems it was more focused on looking cool than actual stealth. It also had no weapons bays, no jet nozzles, a tire pressure that would be too low to actually hold a fully-loaded fighter plane, and a very basic cockpit filled with cheap off-the-shelf avionics taken from a civilian turboprop aircraft. Their "flight demo" was a poor-quality video of what was almost certainly an RC plane, that didn't actually show it taking off or landing. Last I saw, they've actually given up on the fighter thing and are going to make it into an unmanned drone instead, which seems to be a bit of an admission of defeat on their part.
I used these FPGAs in university lol… not quantum but they’re pretty awesome for learning about simple SoC design or complex circuit design and how to minimize inefficiencies in SoC logic on the fly. Thanks for taking the time to cover this, I’m really enjoying these videos.
VHDL or Verilog sucks and it’s great. 😅
yeah I just finished an FPGAs class this summer in VHDL and seeing the exact board I used on an LTT thumbnail made me piss laughing
Verilog, now that's a name I haven't heard of in a long time.
@someonerandom704 They are still teaching VHDL in school? That was my first HDL but have long left it behind for Verilog.
@@TheCrazyCanuck420 my school is pretty out of date
@@TheCrazyCanuck420currently working a VHDL job, I learned both VHDL and verilog in uni just a couple years ago. VHDL is still widely used in security/defence applications
Linus is secretly Megumin confirmed?
lol thought it looked like megumin as well.
@@ilovefunnyamv2nd *drop magic
@@StarDruid there's also this image of Megumin using a PC with a very bored face. It makes perfect sense
@@ilovefunnyamv2ndBOOM?
he looks jewish, lol
50 years ago the Shah of Iran called Canada a cold village with no drinking water. Now a Canadian lumberjack is making fun of a country that is run by a bunch of Mullah sent off to Iran by the West.
Ive been using this Quantum Computing Chip in my university Embedded Systems class, what an amazing piece of technology.
Cap.
@@aimwell8813 he means the board in the video not an actual quantum board lol
@eviction.notice oh sorry. It's probably a good board, it's just not that good.
I seriously want to see a breakdown video on that uniform to figure out what Linus's rank is haha 😂
Looks like nonsense rank, epaulette shows 1 Fat-star with 3 Bars Aurum.
A small star usually denotes General rank, increasing in number up to 5.
A bar marks a junior (Commissioned-) Officer increasing to 3 bars, marking a Captain.
In the USA, their ranks are marked with a bronze bar, upranking to 1 silver bar, and then 2 silver bars.
In rare circumstances a rank above 5 Stars (5 Stars itself is virtually inexistent until active war) would be 1 Giant emblem of some significance to the territory, followed by a minor addition usually an underscore of wings or laurel. Those are the Field Marshal and Grand Marshal ranks.
Given what's on Linus' shoulder,...
Captain General Marshal 🤪
@@siaomimifive6538 thankyou, that was actually an interesting tidbit of info. neat!
The amount of accurate information this video has about Iran is really something else
good job linus
As an iranian, I wanna thank Linus for this video, but I would also like to add to something he said. A few years ago, the iranian government started re-issuing new national IDs(idk what they're officially called so I did my best in translation). Long story short, the population of Iran is around 80 million, and nearly 190 million people registered for the new ID. This means that more than half of the Iranians alive on this planet don't even live in Iran. It makes me sad but it is unfortunately true.
That's wild. Where are they mostly located ? Because 110 million people can take over many countries. I doubt that information is accurate, maybe a failure in the system or some government shenanigans.
How is that sad? They could be living in some of the best places of this planet with the best conditions and opportunities. Don’t just assume people wanna be where they were born.
@@aedaldanielit's sad because many of us have to leave not so willingly, that's just not easy.
Let’s not follow the example of Iran’s government and pull numbers and statements out of hat.
There aren’t 110M iranian outside of iran. There are more reliable sources to check for this.
That 190M application probably was due to some other government f.. up or fraudulent.
@@aedaldaniel maybe the wording wasn't great from my part. It is sad that we were forced to leave because of the government. Iran is a beautiful country with rich traditions, amazing food, and great history. There are a lot of brilliant minds that are born in that country everyday. I'll tell you from having gone to school both in Iran and in the US, there are relatively more smart people in Iran than in the US. With all of those things, nobody would ever want to leave there if it weren't for the politics. It is sad because we have no other choice.
Both Microsoft and Google have Quantum programming libraries that run on your standard computer. They basically emulate some parts of a quantum computer. Though not very likely, perhaps this board was used to act as a very efficient quantum emulator for development
Simulating qubits is at least quadratic time complexity. Those compilers and FPGAs can only simulate a handful of them at once - which is only good for experimental/learning purposes.
@@exciting-burp definitely. Though those FPGAs may do the calculations way faster than a normal CPU would
I like your funny words magic man
@@vinno97 An FPGA is not magically faster than a specialized CPU. It's main point is that it can basically emulate different types of ASICs, not that it's some supercomputer of its own.
That's probably what was told to immediate senior of the researcher but multilple people in the chain of command probably exagerated the "quantumness" and the the message that reach the HQ was "WE HAVE WORKING SUPERCOMPUTER!!!"😂😂😂
Americans said Iranian missiles were not accurate enough until they faced it in Al Asad Airbase, Erbil
How about reading some other comments under this vid and seeing how many Iranians say this is bs.
Hardware dev here. I am quite impressed that Linus presents an fpga board here. Normally they gonna used in embedded prototyping projects such as cameras or image processors
Same, very impressed. FPGA's are very complex, have wide applications and are notoriously difficult to comprehend. Have seen them used mostly in projectors and other video platforms, haven't really thought about the application in emulation, very nice!
As a Iranian citizen, I loved ltt roasting silly things that government announces, at least part of them 😂
نه داداش اشتباه نکن ایران کوانتومیه و ما در زمان هم سفر میکنیم لاینوس خود فروخته غربه
@@AmirTheDarkOne Either you're in on the joke or completely delusional.
@janus3555 you probably used the auto translation so it sounds legit but his comment in persian was completely sarcastic. we're all so fed up with our government's BS aswell.
@@AmirTheDarkOne حق با توعه، باید از ماتریکس خارج بشم 😂
توی احمق آخه چی میفهمی قدرت ایران چیه
Imagine how we, Iranian people, live in this circus!
As a quantum computer chip, I can confirm we are indeed part of a quantum system used to make quantum computers and time machines
FPGAs are also good for software defined radios. The big flat connector on it can host a number of radio cards.
What brands of SDRs contain FPGAs? I'm only familiar with the Ettus/NI family of products
@@jonathanmacias9950ADALM-PLUTO, LimeSDR, Red Pitaya, AntSDR
Iranian people and government are 2 totally different paradigms.
Bro got some questionablely deviant things in his inventory, man's gonna rule the earth.
As an Iranian, i am already cringing at what is about to happen
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@@the.forlorn Send vid to Mehdi, let him debunk it.
@@tuff_lover Oh, no. Someone is hurt.
@@the.forlorn Mehdi is from Iran, you daft.
came for a quantum computer, stayed for the detective board in the background
I can't wait for them to release their new servers mounted in the I-Rack
💀
So, am I the only one who expected Linus to actually do something with the FPGA? It's neat that they bought one but if Linus was just going to hold it you could've just put up a screenshot of the board's webpage.
Same. At least setting it up as NES of something. Kind of disappointed
2 seconds after i finished watching this i walked by my coworker's desk and he had this exact board sitting on his desk. Apparently one of our zync-7000 based products needed a bug fix in its FPGA logic.
I have multiple SOCs from the 2010's from my time as a computer engineering student and they're awesome devices cable of so much. I was able to build a multicore processor on them and while it's speed isn't anything even close to an Intel or AMD processor, it's still really fun to play with.
This is just a small part of the lies spread by the regime's media, which may be funny for foreigners, but it has become very painful for us who live in Iran.
Thanks for video
Love from Iran ❤
Exactly
Every country on earth is corrupt, some more than others and some are dictatorships too.
This whole video makes me embarrassed to call myself Iranian.
Meanwhile, I'm happy to see more people are realizing that the Iranian regime is not in any way representing its people.
As an Iranian, I am proud to be Iranian. People like you have lost your identity because of watching London media
@@آرش_رستمی You can be proud to be Iranian by nationality, but not of the current leadership or government. Unless, that is, you're an ideologue.
The B-Roll in this video is superb with all of the sweeping cinematic close-up shots. Would love to see more like this in the future.
Ironically, that "basic dev board" is more advanced than the ones currently being used to control satellites. The average level of processing power on most new launches is probably around the level of a first-generation Pentium. As in, 60 MHz core clock Pentium.
I mean, they do have very strict energy consumption constraints. Makes sense that they run bare minimum hardware. Plus, getting rid of the heat generated by hardware in space is way more complicated than plopping in a regular heatsink. I guess they want as few thermal waste as possible.
A lot of space hardware uses special radiation hardened process nodes, which haven't shrunk as fast as conventional ones (think ~50-100nm for the latest fully rad hardened ones).
With the sheer amount of starlink launches, this is probably no longer accurate
@@TheKuroshi I took that into account with my estimate. Before Starlink, it was more along the lines of a 286.
I AM watching from iran 🤣🤣🤣 I love ltt you have fan every ware in iran even in my university any computer nerd know your wonder full teem even though its very hard to watch youtube because of internet censorship
I learn a ton from your channel 😊
I work from home and my friend came into my room one day and saw the ZedBoard I was using for work. He said "is the iran's new quantum computer" i was dumbfounded when he showed me the source lol. Anyways he led me here too. Yeah FPGAs are cool, and Iran is wildin.
As an Iranian, i didn't expect it to watch this in LTT😂😂😂😂😂
That's crazy, im using a zynq7000 based board for an uni project right now
make sure to write about how you used the quantum algorithms
@@kieraisveryboredgotta catch em all.
In my master thesis I used it as a platform for real quantum experiments
As an Iranian living abroad, I can confirm the brain drain is much more significant than one would think. What it also means is that the smart people who are in Iran are under even more oppression as they wouldn't want to help the government with their whack endeavours.
I work for a business where we sell products well in the $100k price per unit range where the entire setup’s heart is a custom Zerboard inspired, Zynq 7000-based board. The CPU is not there to do general purpose stuff, but rather to configure and monitor the hardware connected to the board and programmed into the FPGA, so raw computing power is not the most sought after metric. The dual core is just fine for what it needs to do. And it’s all there for the FPGA, where we do the real grunt work. The board is rather cheap for what it can do, other qualities matter for us; for e.g. in such applications, where the warranty we offer to the customer is always 10 years minimum, the fact that this board is guaranteed to be produced, sold, and supported by the manufacturer for the next 20 years or so is what counts a lot for us. Think about your run of the mill PC and tell me whether you think that is going to be sold in the same exact SKU 5 years for now. No, right, so “regular” stuff just doesn’t cut it here.
Love how AI-waifu-Linus has a choker on
anime-Linus has been around the internet for a while now, but dose the appearance in a video make her a cannon character, as Linus's alter-ego
It just looks like megumin. Noice.
😂 Still better than Russia's quantum computer, which is made entirely of wooden planks and empty vodka bottles.
Digilent has always been a really nice company in my eyes, so I hope they get a well deserved boost in sales from this vid!
While I was working on my Computer Engineering Degree, I interned at Diligent. Great company company and great people!
Wow really? I have had problems with some of their products, mainly with their APIs. Sometimes they are Windows only, which makes it a pain, or are developed purely in C and make it unintuitive to use them in other programming languages.
There are FPGAs currently being used in quantum computing! Look into the ZCU111 or ZCU216 development boards from Xilinx
pov: your livin in iran
FPGA's are super cool for learning chip design! And there are some very cheap dev kits everyone could afford and try out, like ice40 dev boards or gw1n boards. These could go from 5 to 50 buck, and you can do some cool hobby projects with them. I discovered FPGA's back in 2016 and that was down the rabbit hole experience
ICE40HX is probably the cheapest you can buy.
Under 10$ a piece in TQ144.
Ran some demo Verilog on it to compare it to Xlinx 7 series ecosystem.
While Xilinx wins hands down in all aspects other than power, it's still the cheapest glue logic you can buy.
Spartan6/Spartan7 are way pricier and Intel is out of the budget race here.
You can use one with a microcontroller to improve it's capabilities(solve hardware bugs in hardware,outside the microcontroller).
@@whatever2144 Well, I got gw1n with 9k logic (i don't remember lut or cell equivalent) in 144 package for about 3$. Got a discount for helping fae out with lectures. Spartans were a thing, especially ones with transceivers. But Xilinx bumped the price like 50% back in covid times, so imo they lost cost advantage too. I no longer do the hardware itself, can't speak with metal in voice. Right now, the only fpga I use is virtex for cpu ip validation at work...
We used FPGA's in some of my engineering courses for studying digital logic and design. They are awesome but they get really complex. That HDL is no joke. My professor was actually the CEO of diligent before they were sold.
What! How to become like you?
bruh I'm iranian and the second i saw "Iran" in title i laughed xD
Apparently Iran's tech industry is the equivalent of that kid on the playground who can totally hit a home run every time if he really wanted to, but nobody has ever seen him play baseball.
I've seen that boy play sometime, gotta say, he did not disappoint, atleast most of the times he did try.
Linus is now on a Hitlist
As an iranian I was laughing my ass off when i saw the thumbnail 🤣🤣
Those fpga boards are used for different kind of things. To test rtl code before tape out of an asic. Or to develop ai processors next to regulat arm processors. These zynq boards are a very useful product to group the strengths of hw acceleration and cpu power in one platform ;)
These FPGAs are very well suited for simulation of quantam based algortihms. As a matter of fact, till this date it is the cheapest approach to simulate a quantum kernel and capture its runtime hyperparameters. Unless you wanna spend govt money on a massive 10bn dollar cryogenic lab , the hybrid cpu-fpga approach is pretty economical and effective. In my city (Kolkata, India), a company called TCG (The Chatterjee Group) is on a project of developing a 3qbit chip , and they are using this approach widely, in their operations to validate their hardware definition logic before actually moving into fab stage.
They said it was running quantum algorithms (just software), not quantum computing or quantum hardware.
0:10 So Linus is Megumin?
well if he wasn't on a hitlist before he sure is now
It's Iran, he'll be fine.
@@janus3555sucide drones goo brrrr
Let's make list of what Americans have claimed. Who would win. Iran vs US
As an Iranian i have nothing but shame.
Great explanation of some pretty esoteric concepts, including global politics! FPGAs are tough to get across; I like to say that normal programming is creating a sequence of instructions that _does_ something, but FPGA programming is describing hardware that _is_ something; everything happens in parallel, at the logic gate level.
lol, whoever made that Pepe Silvio board behind Linus needs a raise… that’s hilarious. 😆
8:10 They could have been talking about qubit emulation, which is absolutely a thing. (Basically, emulating a quantum computer, usually at much slower speeds.) But still, yes, that's a very old board. 😆