We presented our ISPASS paper this week, so we can go ahead and slashdot this. I've written a draft of what I'd like to post, and I'd like to get some feedback. Thanks!
It seems like open source hardware has really begun to take off lately, but this is because quite a few enthusiasts have been working for years on some really cool projects, and they've reached a critical mass. Since 2010, Jeff Bush [link to something about Jeff or blog] has been working on an Apache-licensed open source GPU [links to Nyuzi], and he has several other interesting github projects as well [links]. The Nyuzi Processor is a fully functional GPU. It is written in synthesizable Verilog, has a functional compiler toolchain [link], and comes with test suites, benchmarks, the software component of 3D rendering engine, and more. Its development has been gaining momentum in discussions [links to some mentions on websites] and coding projects [Google summer of code]. There are some videos online of it animating a rotating teapot [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsvZorBu4Uk] and a Phong-shaded torus [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIMMj4Zwqv0], along with the results of recently-added mipmap support [http://i.imgur.com/sHAsAU5.png]. Recently, Jeff Bush got together with the founder of the Open Graphics Project [link to wikipedia], and they co-wrote a paper about this GPU and some experiments they did, which was recently presented at a well-respected academic CS conference [ http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/nyami-ispass2015.pdf]. -- Timothy Normand Miller, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/ Open Graphics Project
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