So from my understanding Nyuzi is for gpgpu while MIAOU is for actual rendering ? What kind of performance is reasonable to expect from this ? Would it reach something like the mali 400 mp2 ?
2017-02-17 19:03 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is that the master plan you with Allwinner you mentioned somewhere else ? > > no it isn't. > > > I'm very interested with the idea. The mere idea that you managed to get > a > > new SoC going on on a reasonable node despite the cost intrigues me a > lot. > > i haven't - i'm putting in proposals and finding candidate people to work > with. > > > So what about all the other ip blocks involved in the soc ? > Realistically if > > such a small form factor wants to be successful it needs to have 3d. > > Nyuzi and MIAOU. GPLGPU is out because... well... its designer > unfortunately doesn't understand that you can't modify the GPL by > adding a clause "this is GPL except if you want to use it for > commercial purposes then, well, sorry, but you can't", that's *not* > the GPL, it's a proprietary (closed source) license. whoops. > > so, Nyuzi it is, along with MIAOU as a *separate* engine which will > do OpenCL and will need to be made use of separately (in software). > also great for parallel processing tasks as-is. > > there will need to be a *lot* of software development - even for the > hardware. the lowrisc designers aren't *actually* developing any > peripherals: they're putting in what they call "minion cores" which > basically do bit-banging of various GPIO pins under their control, in > effect *becoming* peripherals. (if it's dedicated bit-banging, it's > not really bit-banging, is it?) the nice thing is: you can literally > implement any protocol you care to. > > i want to have a word with them to make sure that there's some > differential pairs connected to the minion cores, with variable power > domains. that would make it *potentially* possible for people to > either use them as an open high-speed inter-connect, or to implement > various high-speed peripheral buses such as PCIe, LVDS, MIPI, eDP and > HDMI - all depending on whether the minion cores can handle it and are > set up to do DMA or not: just have to see. > > so about the only thing that would need to be licensed (at this > stage) would be DDR3 RAM interfaces. everything else is covered from > opencores.org, including an LCD/VGA controller, USB2, and many others. > > VP8 and VP9 are available from google with no royalties if you are > going to production silicon. MP4 can easily be obtained. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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