We are working on an FPGA-based prototype/development board. This will be able to act as a graphics card, albeit slower than the ASIC. The cost of a fast CPU on a board would be much greater than the FPGA on a board, and the FPGA would still out-perform the CPU.
The most cost-effective approach for a short-term solution is the FPGA. On the other hand, if people want a product that has a CPU on it that they can program, that's a whole other story. It just wouldn't make a very good graphics card. On 8/13/05, vasilios anagnostopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, you are right. I agree with you 100%, but we need > something as fast as possible and the CPU way seems > more promising just to prove that the whole project is > not vaporware. I believe that a good processor and > carefully designed software can give a tolerable true > prototype which is easier to create. All we need is a > fast processor optimized for multimedia and some low > cost development board. We do not need USB/ATA and so > on. We need something to offload the cpu for rendering > and give others the ability to work on something even > if it is software. Updates can improve the performance > and even CG experts can implement current research > ideas long before these find their way into big > companies products. I think we can use the success of > this multimedia rich embedded system to fuel > financially the GPL-VHDL/ or GPL-assembly code which > should attract smaller companies struggling for > survival. They may provide the next generation GPUs to > run our software and this will come at no cost and of > course everything will be opensource. > > I think I have right in this respect. We should think > in terms of advertisement and not in terms of > performance at this early stage ( Microsoft thinking > is not that bad occasionaly, do you agree?) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
