I'm so fed up with opencores.org right now it's not funny. They talk about being 'open', but they are about 5 years behind when it comes to understanding the point of open source and free software.
I'm actually rather interested in http://www.minsoc.com/1_0:installation, but right now I have to wade through a stupid registration process to get access to the damn SVN server. If someone could please clone the SVN, and convert it to git or mercurial, and put it on bitbucket or github, I'd be happy to try it. Right now I seem to be making more progress with Gaisler's LEON sparc deriviative. http://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/ipcores/soclibrary (And the xilinx installer might finish in the next half hour, so I might actually be able to do something.... In the time I wasted waiting for Xilinx, I could probably have learned decapsulation and taken the top off some LX25's to start reverse engineering their bitstreams. Oh wait, I just agreed not to do that in some idiotic click-through license. I guess I'll just have to contract someone else to do that someday) On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 09:46:23PM -0800, gary sheppard wrote: > Hey, have you recently looked at the or1200? I was reading and the part > that is mainly talked about is 32 bit, and I really hope to see 64 bit > personally. Thing is, they say there is not really a lot of difference > other than more registers and pointers etc, but that the 64 bit does still > have a few minor bugs lingering. > > In a conversation with Timothy today, he mentioned OpenRISC and said it > might be an overall better way to go than the OpenSPARC. Hey, Nasa built an > OpenRISC and shipped it up into space, so it must be somewhat ok. > > You and I also see eye to eye on that it would be nice to end up making > money on a chip, not just for a minor hobby. Oh by the way... I bet 65nm > would be possible for that shipping container. :) > > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:07:47AM +0000, Jack Carroll wrote: > > > Watch out for mayfly parts. Anything OGP releases is going to need a > > long production life. One of its target markets is industrial automation, > > which generally requires production parts to be available for 10 to 25 > > years after design freeze, and field service parts to be available for > > another decade or two. A lifetime buy at first production release doesn't > > cut it. > > > > > > The same applies for farm equipment, and why I'm on the SoC bandwagon. > > > > Why screw around trying to evaluate which vendor that's going to > > overcharge you > > now is still going to be around to overcharge you in 40 years. > > > > I had bearing go out and wear down a shaft on a combine this fall. > > Replacement > > 'vendor' parts would have taken $600 and 2 days to ship, and 75 mile trip > > to > > the dealer. We went to the local machine shop and about 2 hours and $150 > > later > > we had a replacment. > > > > In 30 years I expect that either I will own, or the local fab shop will own > > a shipping container capable of making one-off 90nm parts and packaging > > them > > in a few hours from a silicon mask file. > > > > That's one hell of a business case for open-source, down to the silicon > > mask, > > hardware. The only question is does someone want to make a shitload of > > money > > saving me the trouble to build the shipping container, or am I going to > > have > > to do it myself? > > _______________________________________________ > > Open-graphics mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
