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To me, the big news is that there is an actual prototype board. That is a significant milestone. And it shows that the project is making real progress.To me, it is a bit early to be drumming up interest in purchasing the board. Don't want to be accused of vaporware. Perhaps we can drum up interest in assisting the project. Maybe something like The Open Graphics Project has completed a prototype of the OGD1 development board. <brief description of the OGD1> More information, including photographs of the prototype board, can be found at <URL>, Depending on the audience, you might want to include a brief description of the OGP, including the goal of a OGC board.
ok.. As one guy mentioned off list, some people don't appreciate the time it takes to design hardware. Lets try mxing all the ideas together.. the target being those interested in our project or its progress. how about ----------- The Open Graphics Project has released the first photographs of the prototype OGD1 development board. This Xilinx Spartan-3 XC3S4000 FPGA-based development board also includes the (relatively) smaller Lattice Semiconductor XP10 FPGA for PCI, two DVI head Video output, and an IDC plug compatable output. The Production board will also include Video Out. After completion of testing, this development platform will be sold by Traversal the company founded by members of the project and used by the Open Graphics Project to develop a variety of open architecture hardware products, particularly a new graphics processor. More information, including photographs of the prototype board, can be found at http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=OGPN17 we then add to the ODG1page: ************* Those who purchase this Xilinx Spartan-3 XC3S4000 FPGA FPGA-based development with the (relatively) smaller Lattice Semiconductor XP10 FPGA from Traversal are expected to be provided with a library of reference logic for use in their designs, including controllers for memory, PCI, video, and SPI. Source code to the reference logic is available under a variety of licenses, including the GNU General Public License. The Sparten can be programmed via JTAG Header or PCI with code compiled using the free tool by and Xilinx [1].The XP10 comes preloaded with logic code for PCI [2] which is currently under development. [1] http://direct.xilinx.com/direct/webpack/63/WebPACK_63_fcfull_i.exe [Requires login] [2] Programming the XP10 device currently requires purchased versions of ispLEVER which you can find at their online store: http://www.latticesemi.com/store/software.cfm *********** hmm? :-) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
