Sebastien. I am a big fan of your work. That factoid about OSS is fascination, I hope you'll tell is more in a separate post.
What remains a puzzle to me is how the relatively low performance of a soft CPU such as LM32 would be received by potential purchasers of a Nanonote type of device. Maybe I have my facts wrong, but in the current FPGA my impression was that Milkymist/M32 run a at about 1/3 the speed of todays Ingenic 4720 (is that the correct model in Ben?). A Ya Nanonotr would likely use the Ingenic 4760 where the main CPU core will be approx twice as fast as what we have in Ben. I am ignoring for now the fact that Ingenic SOCs are not competitive in CPU speed vs various ARM based SOCs. --- Ron K. Jeffries On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 16:23, Sebastien Bourdeauducq < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Once Milkymist matures to the point that it can form the architectural > > basis for creating an ASIC SOC with competitive processing power to an > > Ingenic 4760 (as a lower bound) then everything changes. > > Parts of Milkymist SoC that I wrote are launching on a NASA flight to > the ISS next January... so I guess it's not that immature, at least for > the core parts (I do admit that there are some areas for improvement in > a few peripherals, most of them being unneeded for a notebook except > USB). > > I think there are actually few technical obstacles to making a small SoC > for notebooks with basically those core parts. The main developments > would only be improving the USB controller and designing a MMU (which we > might do this summer btw). It's basically a matter of getting down to it > and investing money (Ron, please help us improving sales) in the chip > fabrication. Oh, and you'd discover the wonderful world of the > ultra-proprietary Synopsys/Cadence tools, which display *blinking* > patent notices on the console when you launch them :) > > (speaking about those tools, this is quite funny too: > http://www.sigasi.com/content/your-milage-may-vary-lot) > > S. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion >
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