I should introduce my self. I am a retired EE/CS -- mostly hardware
engineering and numerical methods programing. But, the basic skills are
probably applicable to other things.
I realize that I am coming late to the party, so what I might say might
be useless or it might be very helpful. Free advice is worth >= to the
price paid for it. :-)
I had this idea to use a x86 processor to make a graphics board.
Specifically, the NSM now Geode. Specifically the GX 533 which has
hardware VGA and a video controller built in. It is while searching
that that I found your group.
IICU, you current plan is to use a Gate Array as an accelerator for a
host based OpenGL graphics system. NVida did well with this approach so
it is probably viable although it does require a good software driver to
work.
The GX 533 costs $80 so it would probably make the price point but might
now be fast enough. Note that there is a rule of thumb that the selling
price of a production product is less than the parts to make one would cost.
--
JRT
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