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Offline wawrzon

Re: A little teaser
« on: July 17, 2014, 10:42:47 PM »
Quote from: biggun;769234
Just a little teaser.
http://www.apollo-core.com/bringup/apolloPhoenix.jpg

Hdmi, network,jtag and ata on board? Wasnt that supposed to be on the fpga board out of the box?
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: A little teaser
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2014, 09:19:53 AM »
Quote from: fishy_fiz;769277
Looking interesting.
Just curious though, why ddr3? Given the low speed of both the cpu core and ram (relative to modern computing) wouldnt ddr2, or ideally ddr1 be a better match? Given the high latency of ddr3 Id expect the other RAM types to perform better. Is it simply a matter of availability/price?

I guess this is what the sockit board provides. We will have to live with it. :-)
I think this roadmap is a realistic plan to give first accel and then replace genuine amiga components piece for piece that results eventually with a standalone alternative system
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: A little teaser
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2014, 08:26:57 AM »
Quote from: Hans_;769406
Selling this board could be a problem. It has an HDMI port, and to sell devices with one of those you have to pay a licensing fee & royalties (minimum $10,000 USD). They would be better off making it a DVI connector, and providing a DVI to HDMI adaptor (in which case the adaptor manufacturer pays the fees). Alternatively, DisplayPort is royalty-free, but the FPGA might not be capable of producing DisplayPort output signals.

Hans


Wondered about that too. Would hate to see a minor issue block the way. Gunnar, care to comment?
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: A little teaser
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2014, 09:40:52 PM »
apparently there is some progress here:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=45193

and apparently here too, just wonder why this section seems not to be visible otherwise:
http://www.majsta.com/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=7

also another standalone amiga fpga development here:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=966964#post966964
« Last Edit: July 31, 2014, 10:01:42 PM by wawrzon »