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So the guys have created this marvelous looking board : Paralela the board! In this post, which I update gradually I will try to describe why using this board is not a correct decision! First look, the board is amazing ! 18 CPU cores, mind blowing! The thing they don't tell you is that 16 CPU cores on the Epiphany processor do NOT have direct access to the DRAM memory! Indeed this is why the ZYNQ is there, to act as a bridge between the DRAM-less epiphany and the DRAM memory. This introduced memory access latency for performing calculations on…