X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=markdown%2Fpre-launch.md;h=a440104ac1e9a58fb8695a61c5b5ae070b9c131a;hb=8a39a95d1b797ab3c7d980cb06d0ee35d0602c02;hp=c01ea02b055880209da0af6d59e7fdd0ab0358b3;hpb=e4127a2a9f7498713644b241284c2b90cb546736;p=crowdsupply.git diff --git a/markdown/pre-launch.md b/markdown/pre-launch.md index c01ea02..a440104 100644 --- a/markdown/pre-launch.md +++ b/markdown/pre-launch.md @@ -9,16 +9,18 @@ embedded systems. Full source code and files are available not only for the operating system and bootloader, but also for the processor, its peripherals and its 3D GPU and VPU. +{kazan-logo} + Onboard the Libre RISC-V M-Class is the [Kazan](https://salsa.debian.org/Kazan-team/kazan) GPU, a -libre-licensed software-rendered +libre-licensed, software-rendered [Vulkan](https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/) Driver written in -Rust that uses LLVM for code generation. Kazan will use Optimised 3D -instructions specifically designed and added to the Libre RISC-V M-Class +Rust that uses LLVM for code generation. Kazan will use optimised 3D +instructions specifically designed for and added to the Libre RISC-V M-Class SoC, yet Kazan itself may still be used (unoptimised) on other hardware. -The performance target for Kazan on the Libre RISCV SoC is a very modest -mobile-class level (1280x720 25fps, 100MPixels/sec, 30MTriangles/sec, -5-6GFLOPs), whilst the power budget is very tight: under 2.5 watts in 28nm. -With RISC-V being 40% more power efficient than x86 or ARM, this is -very reasonably achievable. +The performance target for Kazan on the Libre RISCV SoC is a very +modest mobile-class level (1280 x 720 25 fps, 100 Mpixels/sec, 30 +Mtriangles/sec, 5-6 GFLOPs), whilst the power budget is very tight +(under 2.5 watts in a 28 nm process). With RISC-V being 40% more +power efficient than x86 or ARM, this is very reasonably achievable.