thanks Andrew for the hat-tip (I'd tip mine if I had one) On 28 December 2016 at 19:33, Andrew M.A. Cater <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:20:05AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> --- >> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:02 AM, John Luke Gibson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Obviously it's been mentioned before, since it's on the <a >> > href=http://rhombus-tech.net/adapteva/>wiki</a>. >> > There isn't much information on the page however. >> > The core doesn't work standalone, however it is completely open with >> > an HDL and a schematic; it is in the direction that a puristic libre >> > system would be if not "technically" all the way there. The board >> > itself has both(I think?) an arm and a x86 on board, simply because >> > adapteva is too new to have enough libraries ported for a full os (I >> > think?). >> > Now their boards are $99 which is a jump from $40, so my question >> > would be was price differential the reason why it wasn't included or >> > where there too many compatibility/tooling issues? >> >> i believe i spoke to them (it may have been a different company), if >> i recall correctly (which i probably don't) their core PCB (which they >> haven't released) is 12-layer, which means "insanely expensive to >> produce". >> >> mostly it's down to practicality of cost, and time. if people offer >> to *pay* for these boards to be made, i'll get them done, no problem. >> > > Lovely board, lots of potential - but no community because it's hard > to program the fast cores - lots of low level C programming to make > best use of it, though someone did do a GNURadio port for Google > Summer of Code a while back > > I was a Kickstarter backer - but chickened out of the significant > porting effort needed. The orignal Kickstarter board came without > significant heatsinking so needed extra fan cooling. There was > an Ubuntu port for it - and it would probably run Debian with no > huge problem - armhf. > > It's an ARM, FPGA and then however many Epiphany cores - Anders > Olofssen (? spelling ?) built his ideal system for signal > processing tasks because he couldn't find the necessary for his > Ph.D - the paraphrase on lack of community is from his site. > > Ericsson and others have, however, funded additional R&D so > they've got to 1024 core boards. Really useful for a compact > supercomputer / specialist 5G hardware but fairly tough > for pretty much everybody else to get a toehold because the > initial learning curve is non-trivial. > > Andy C. > > >> l. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] >> http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook >> Send large attachments to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected]
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