Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Feb 2004 11:36:23 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Crazy idea: Design open-source graphics chip |
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Timothy Miller wrote: > Ok, so, how about this idea: > > - Small Xilinx FPGA, 16M of RAM, and a DAC on a board. > - AGP 2X > - Up to 2048x2048 resolution at 8, 16, and 32 bpp. > - Acceleration ONLY for solid fills and bitblts on-screen.
Sounds OK to me.
> Given that so little is accelerated, there is no point in putting more > than the viewable framebuffer on the card, hense the 16 megs. It would > probably actually HURT performance to cache pixmaps on the card. > > > Oh, there's one thing I forgot. It would have to support VGA. There is > a VGA core on opencores.org that we could use, but its logic area would > probably push up the FPGA cost so that the board was in the $100 range. > Probably more.
Why support legacy VGA? It makes things more complex and expensive, and doesn't give us much, especially for a SoC.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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