2012/11/10 Dieter BSD <[email protected]>: > > Can we design the pinout of the OGP GPU chip before designing the > internals? Various chips, including rather complex CPUs are designed > to be pin-compatible with earlier designs, so it should be possible.
The connecteur are generaly more coslty than the chip they can hold. The only exception i know is for the x86 chip. You can create what ever standard you want, this will be always helpfull for upstream compatibility with the software stack. But a "generic" card will be extremly costly. You go from a pci-e card with a gpu+RAM+video connector. If you add RAM connector or support, the pcb will be bigger, maybe you will need more layer, for no added value for the first shipping, and with the risk that something was forgotten for the next version. the new gpu project should be finish on rtl, and the software should exist before to think at a board. In the following years, cheap FPGA demo board could come with the needed feature (FPGA+DRAM+DVI+PCIE). Regards, Nicolas _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
