You can be sure they don't

You can be sure they don't

Posted Feb 13, 2008 10:09 UTC (Wed) by forthy (guest, #1525)
In reply to: You can be sure they don't by khim
Parent article: AMD's open GPU documentation site

I'm not sure if you can develop such a complex piece of hardware with such a lousy procedure. I'm developing hardware, simpler one than ATI graphics cards, and we certainly have internal documentation, most of them on a Wiki. We also have people who write documentation for people outside the company, they take the information from the Wiki, polish it up, and delete those parts of the interface that's only used for debugging ;-). And even our largest projects have only a few people involved.

Speaking for me: Even when I do all the things as a one-man show, i.e. designing the hardware, creating the address map and the registers, and writing the software, I'm still writing documentation as well. I don't want to dig into several Verilog files, documentation should not only be inside those files. I sometimes even use literate programming style to get documentation and source together, where it's needed.

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