Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap)

Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap)

Yep. That's what the ASIC version will be targetted for.

But don't forget the FPGA version. As a video card it won't be "uber", it'll be slightly slower, run hotter, and be more expensive then the ASIC version will be.. however it does have some potential in a very different way.

It would basicly be a low-cost PCI card with on-board memory that can be used by hardware hobbyists to mess around with programming their FPGA chips. As far as I know there isn't anything like that in existance.

I am no hardware person and have limited experiance with electronics.. I don't know what sort of limitations there will exist with this card in terms of programmablity. However I know of one company that produced a network'd camera with a built-in hardware Theora encoder. It's capable of realtime HD-quality video over regular ethernet networks, and it uses a much smaller/slower chip.

http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/xcell_53/x...

So I figure a hobby person could adopt that code that man developed and have develop a design for hardware accelerated encoder/decoder for uses in Mythtv or video editors.

Or maybe develop a way to accelerate raytracing renders like Povray or Yafray for 3d graphics? A hardware based encryption device for high speed VPNs? Hardware random number generator?

Or something like that. Who knows what people could figure out if they are able to have a PCI/PCIe card with 128megs of ram and reprogrammable proccessor aviable for cheap?