The research group I'm working with is slightly interested in getting OGD1, however, a concern that's come up is about the FPGA. It sounds like cost would not be a large factor for us and we were hoping for a more high-end development platform. Are there any plans for a more high-end card in the future with say a larger Virtex type FPGA? I've also been looking at some academic papers that have implemented a graphics pipeline on FPGA and they have all used a higher-end FPGA. If other universities are similar to the one I'm in, the low-end specs of the card will be cons against getting one. I'm not complaining or anything, since I realize that a lot of the decisions were to lower the cost, but from my vantage point, these are my observations. Also please forgive any misconceptions I might have made since I'm really new to hardware.
Paul Some papers that I've looked at: A Hardware Architecture for Surface Splatting (SIGGRAPH 2007) Hardware Acceleration of Graphics and Imaging Algorithms Using FPGAs (SCCG 2002) FPGA-BASED 3D GRAPHICS PROCESSOR WITH PCI-BUS INTERFACE, AN IMPLEMENTATION CASE (NORCHIP 2002) Embedded 3D Graphics Core for FPGA-based System-on-Chip Applications (FPGAworld conference 2005) Realtime Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes on an FPGA Chip (SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Conference On Graphics Hardware 2004) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
