On 3/1/06, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moin, > > Acording to the kerneltrap posting, we will be able to sell > OGD1 in about half a year. Which is a very short time period. > But before we can sell OGD1, there need a few things to be > done first: > > 1) We need both for ogp and traversal some professional > looking websites. A wiki is nice and shows the community > style, but we are trying to sell to companies, not to > joe random hacker. > > 2) Before any card is sold, we _NEED_ a working, at > least correctly simulating and preliminary tested > PCI interface. Noone is going to buy a PCI card for that > he needs to first write/buy a PCI interface before > he even could think about using it. Also we need > a good way to upgrade the PCI interface in case > a bug is found.
At Tech Source, we did. In fact, this particular board didn't even have a separate chip for PCI. Also notice the board on Avnet that costs $1200 without the PCI core and $17200 WITH the PCI core. This board is designed to be useful even without the PCI interface. Mind you, I believe it would be a huge boost to have this interface. I just haven't had the time to work on it in a while. I was planning on using my spring break, but other things have come up to preclude that. This is why I talk a lot about partnerships and stuff; I'm trying to find a way to make this my full time job, and the sooner, the better. > > 3) We are not using the "industry standard" Xilinx, > thus we have to fight against an initial barrier > until we get some acceptance. A lot of the boards I've seen use Atmel parts. I'm not sure people care that much. > IMHO it would be a > good idea to ask Lattice whether they would allow > us to bundle their ispLEVER software (full or demo?) > with the cards we sell. We have one very good argument: > if OGD is a success, then Lattice would get quite some > market share, but therefor we need also design software > at some reasonable price (having modules for synplify and > precision rtl for free is not enough). This depends on how many we sell. But since it's a free download anyhow, I think they might let us copy it onto a CD. > BTW: Timothy: you said that there is a version for free > of the Lattice synthesis software. I am not able to > find that, could you provide an url or something? I'll look into it. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
