Hrm... I just browsed their github for fft (just to get a feel for their examples) and it's hopelessly overly complicated. If I accidentally inherent 99 USD, I might get one and speed up some algorithms, but I generally speed up my algorithms by making them do less work :)
Russ On 28 December 2016 at 19:50, Russell Hyer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
