On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote: > What about separate FPGA flashes for speed and correctness? > This thought is not new, but I think it's been a while since > it was considered and discussed. > > This FPGA will be reprogrammable, that will pretty much guarantee that > flashable mods will appear (if design is Open Source). But what about > having two "official" designs that the user can choose and trust > depending on his needs. > > The default one should be profiled for image correctness, and thus > may sacrifice speed in favor of extra processing for quality. > (ex: extra precision) > > The alternative should be profiled for speed with acceptable quality > losses. This (i hope) would allow the design to free up transistors > that can be used for increasing overall speed instead. (ex: extra > pipelining to allow higher clock) > > Since the default is slow but pretty I think nobody would complain > about quality decrease if they themself choose to change the profile > to favor speed. > > This would allow once-a-week gamers to get that extra punch when > they try to frag their fellow CAD designers. > > Yes it'll be extra work, but optimizing for both profiles in one core > may be more frustrating and lead to unneeded sacrifices.
Well, for me it's quite enough with one official release, and using the re-programmability to create your own design. I'm sure there will be at least a few "unofficial" projects with special interests. And furthermore I see this card as an opportunity for X Window developers to have a base card with which they can test code/extensions so that they don't need to worry about non-available documentation/stability etc... Best regards Peter K -- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
