Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?

[Baruch Even]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 19:09, Timothy Miller wrote:
> I have before thought of the idea of selling a "card full of FPGAs" that 
> developers could use for all sorts of compute-intensive projects.  You 
> could program them to do rendering or protein folding or FFT's for SETI. 
>   But in that case, I'm not sure what Tech-Source's value add would be, 
> since you'd have to get all of your software tools from the FPGA vendor.

Something like this http://www.fpga4fun.com/board_dragon.html with this
http://www.fpga4fun.com/PongGame.html

That covers the base to do VGA display with an FPGA. But the cost is
pretty much prohibitive at over $250 per unit.

Baruch

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