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Re: First Start Minimig with FPGA-CPU!!!
« on: September 30, 2007, 06:33:42 AM »
If someone mass manufacture Application Specific IC (ASIC) based on this FPGA CPU + modified Minimig, will there be a legal problem with Freescale?
(ie: patent/copyright infringement of 68K design)

>Cost US$ 495.
Is it possible to lower the cost using ASIC / Structured ASIC?
What is the minimum volume?
 

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Re: First Start Minimig with FPGA-CPU!!!
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2007, 01:57:03 PM »
What about XtremeData FPGA plug into the CPU socket of AMD Opteron Motherboard?

Is it possible to put Tobiflex design on this device?

http://www.xtremedatainc.com/xd1000_brief.html
 

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Re: First Start Minimig with FPGA-CPU!!!
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2007, 01:40:31 PM »
Other idea: single socket Opteron board, but with modified BIOS that enable booting from FPGA, not an x86 CPU.

Perhaps there is will be some sort of non volatile storage to store the FPGA configuration (Lattice, Xilinx).