Dieter wrote:
There are applications where you would want the card some distance from the computer.a) If it had a IEEE 1394 (firewire) interface, you could hook up several cards without running out of slots. b) Ethernet would allow much longer distances than firewire, Is there a way to provide Ethernet without having to add a CPU, memory, ROM, etc. ?
I would prefer USB2 (it's everywhere, and I really do not have a IEE1394 port) or using GbE (gigabit ethernet), the 100mbit is too slow for a good video, even non-hd, in yuv.
Connecting e.g. an RTL8169 should not be a problem - the OGP has a lot of user IO, but I think, that the software which supports at least IP/UDP (required for DHCP + data transfer) would cost a lot of FPGA gates - so you rather use a separate CPU.
I hope that in the future, there will be an option to exchange the PCI-X interface for USB or GbE, drop the analog part and even the tmds transmitters and use LVDS as it is native for LCD's.
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