On 11/28/05, Hans Kristian Rosbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a thought here.. > > What about making the card a hybrid? > > IE: one side has PCI, the other has AGP. > IF nothing else, the AGP can just be plain PCI using AGP slot. > > If there is a possibility after release for the AGP speed to be > increased to AGP-1x or something that would of course be a plus. > > Detecting whether AGP or PCI is the one being used should be > no problem. Trace length? Maybe a problem, but I guess only for > the higher-speed grades of AGP? > > Benefits: > -One more slot to stuff the card in > -Enthusiasts can now have a FPGA card in an AGP slot > (I guess this could be used to something fun..) =) > -Extra "Wooo.....oow" value.
I don't mean to be a drag, but this has been thought of before, and it's a routing nightmare. We're already tight on pins, and the routing is already very complicated. In order to route this, we'd need more layers (more expensive PCB) and more pins (more expensive chip). Actually, we're pin-limited for OGD. For OGC, I don't know because we haven't started working on the ASIC yet. Either way, the routing is killer. Also, we haven't developed an AGP interface yet. All I've done so far is PCI, and it's not even complete. Still, I'll discuss it with Andy at the appropriate time. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
