Salve Markus! Markus Stehr schrieb am Mittwoch, den 06. Dezember 2006 um 12:47h:
> Hi! > > Robert Michel: > >Ahmm but doesn't a FPGA bare the risk that beside open source > >important parts of the device stay close source? > > Nope, how should? > The FPGA is, normaly, programmed trough VHDL and VHDL is plain text. I know, but could I read out how a FPGA is programmed? So when the hardwareproducer use a programmed FPGA inside a GNU/Linux phone he has not to publish the VHDL code - right? > Besides that, a big enough FPGA could even implement the CPU, the > display controler and possibly the radio unit *g* Sun published the sparc for free, right? And on this CPU inside FPGA could run GNU/Linux again. > But if board one is in pre-production state, then leave that as a note > for board two. :) But when the v1 has a SPI connector, we could solder in a FPGA for ourself - right? Are there FPGA with power mangement options - internal timer to let the FPGA sleep for a while? Wake on signal? > BTW: I had the idea because i looked at my Commodore-One and though "Why > isnt that technology more widely used?" Could it be that when you produce > 500 000 devices even 1 Euro/device would mean 500 000 Euro? Could FPGAs work with analog audio? rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
