2012/5/28 Timothy Normand Miller <[email protected]>: ... >> Some hardware project begins with HDL code only, and finish the code >> before doing real hardware. This could be very long to code a complete >> working gpu, before anything could be tested on fpga. > > I think we can have a single pipeline ready in short order. Then we > can strap four together and make a thread engine. Yeah, I guess it's > time to make a list of steps. :) >
You should better fix a release date of something. Getting out when it's done, is not so good, because things are never finished. >> >> The fpga card was a failure because it was too expensive and the free >> router can't be used. Hobby's card should not go over 150$ (cf pandora >> board, beagle board, Raspery Pi, ...). >> >> If you develop an full open source HDL code, when it will be ready you >> could sell a 100$ card with cheap fpga on it. If it could do the job, >> It will be the proof that you could go on SoC. > > The objective is to LICENSE CODE, not sell hardware. But to do that, > our design has to be the best. Can we do that? Yes, if we get the > right people involved. > If you licence code, it means that the code is not GPL or LGPL in the common sens. How could you force a compagny to buy your licence if the code is free as under opencores.org ? A compagny could buy your knowledge to help them integerate the core but not much. If the code is not GPL or LGPL, it's not a "free hardware". If it's dual licenced code, it means that you own the code, which looks like Trolltech and MySQL way of doing business. You could also have a fondation like Mozilla where hardware magnufacturer give money to have the "best" hardware possible. >> >> Regards, >> Nicolas Boulay >> > > > > -- > 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)
