We can fit a 3S5000 on the OGD1 board, but the 4000 is really quite a large device. Were you thinking of a particular Virtex chip that is so much larger in LUT space that it's worth the vastly greater price?
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Paul Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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) > -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
