Am 12.10.2013 um 19:23 schrieb Ian Stirling: > > On 10/12/2013 05:43 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> The main fear I have is that there is not enough funding because nobody can >> really use it in daily work without investing another lots of money (to >> integrate the FPGA with something). BR, Nikolaus > > Speaking in generalities - FPGAs use lots more power for a given task than > dedicated hardware. > They are also a lot more expensive. > This is unlikely to be $400K investment, then $20 per chip. > More like 400K investment leading to something that works on a $1000 FPGA, > and uses several times the > power of a comparable device. > > Is this interesting - in principle - yes - combined with an ARM licence, it > could lead to a moderately low risk CPU, if someone were willing to put up > the several-many million to make a CPU with it on die. > > Off-die GPUs are an utter non-starter for mobile devices.
Has anyone experience with the Zynq-7000? It has dual Cortex A9 with VFP/Neon - but apparently lacks a GPU... Such a combination could be comparable with OMAP3/4 in computation power. Maybe not the best one for a handheld mobile device, but for a tablet. -- hns _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
