Hi,
I was wondering if you'd heard about Bruno's open GPU that's about to go kickstarter, and what you think of it.
They want to open the IP from Number Nine, in FPGA form. It has both 2d and fixed-function GL parts, separable from each other if only 2d is needed.
I don't know of the exact specs yet, and clearly making it an ASIC would be costly, but it's still an interesting proposition.
- Lauri
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Nine_Visual_Technology [2] http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?82356-Would-A-Kickstarter-Open-Sou...
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Lauri Kasanen cand@gmx.com wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if you'd heard about Bruno's open GPU that's about to go kickstarter, and what you think of it.
They want to open the IP from Number Nine, in FPGA form. It has both 2d and fixed-function GL parts, separable from each other if only 2d is needed.
I don't know of the exact specs yet, and clearly making it an ASIC would be costly, but it's still an interesting proposition.
1) if they can get it into a PCIe-based ASIC with HDMI output they're onto a winner
2) the licensing they've chosen is completely incompatible with every single open hardware design they're _hoping_ people will use the design in!
l.
Hei,
Le Fri, 4 Oct 2013 12:19:15 +0300, Lauri Kasanen cand@gmx.com a écrit :
I was wondering if you'd heard about Bruno's open GPU that's about to go kickstarter, and what you think of it. They want to open the IP from Number Nine, in FPGA form. It has both 2d and fixed-function GL parts, separable from each other if only 2d is needed.
It opened a few hour ago :
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/725991125/open-source-graphics-processor-gpu
Goodbye, Stéphane.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Stéphane Goujet stephane.goujet@wanadoo.fr wrote:
Hei,
Le Fri, 4 Oct 2013 12:19:15 +0300, Lauri Kasanen cand@gmx.com a écrit :
I was wondering if you'd heard about Bruno's open GPU that's about to go kickstarter, and what you think of it. They want to open the IP from Number Nine, in FPGA form. It has both 2d and fixed-function GL parts, separable from each other if only 2d is needed.
It opened a few hour ago :
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/725991125/open-source-graphics-processor-gpu
oh _good_. it looks like they listened about the licensing and have picked LGPLv3+ instead of a stupid creative-commons "attribution" license that is totally incompatible with opencores and opensparc licensing.
at least with LGPLv3+ the verilog source can be treated as a separate "object" even with opensparc being LGPLv2 it's still compatible because the two codebases aren't mixed, they're connected by interfaces, called "bits of wire" :)
l.
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