On Wednesday 02 August 2006 13:44, Nicolas Boulay wrote: > I see you fight for flexibility and compatibility issue. Usually when > such problem is more important than performance (in power, space or > speed), you put a CPU. > > Maybe you could put a strip down LEON cpu (a spark like) and use there > caches as memory. Thos memory could be loaded at boot time from an > eeprom. This cpu will only act as a supervisor and is mainly dedicated > to control the datapath from a very high point of view. > > If LEON is too big, a 8 bits microcontroler could do the job. > > LEON take 5k virtex FPGA cells. It's roughtly the speed of an ARM9. > Compare to the GPU, it could a tiny add that enable a lot of > flexibility.
For a feature that it has been generally agreed that less that 1% of users are likely to need, however, it is enormous overkill. Peter -- Fisher Society publicity officer http://tinyurl.com/o39w2 CUSBC novices, match and league secretary http://tinyurl.com/mwrc9 Quake II build tools maintainer http://tinyurl.com/fkldd v2sw6YShw7$ln5pr6ck3ma8u6/8Lw3+2m0l7Ci6e4+8t4Eb8Aen5+6g6Pa2Xs5MSr5p4 hackerkey.com
pgpo5dIALBWrp.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
