On Thursday, December 29, 2016, 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] > <javascript:;>> 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. > > thats interesting. i worked for aspex semi in 2003 and they had the exact same problem, programming ultra parallel devices is limited to a few hundred competent people in the entire world. interesting to me because ericsson bought aspex. > Andy C. > > > > l. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] <javascript:;> > > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > > Send large attachments to [email protected] <javascript:;> > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] <javascript:;> > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] <javascript:;> -- --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
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