From: lkcl Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:23:43 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: convert-csv-opcode-to-binary~3678 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c68121b2fe626ec81aa97af797029606e52b54a0;p=libreriscv.git --- diff --git a/3d_gpu.mdwn b/3d_gpu.mdwn index 090d12026..dc83ee657 100644 --- a/3d_gpu.mdwn +++ b/3d_gpu.mdwn @@ -31,10 +31,7 @@ Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm, 64 bit, si # Business Objectives -* the project shall be a hybrid CPU-GPU because if it is not, the - complexity involved in developing a split shared-memory CPU-GPU both - at a hardware and a software level will be so costly it will jeapordise - the project. +* the project shall be a hybrid CPU-GPU * the project shall be commercial and mass-volume (100 million units and above) * the project shall be entirely transparent so that end-users will be @@ -44,6 +41,26 @@ Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm, 64 bit, si and aiding and assisting developers AND BUSINESSES in debugging and thus hugely saving them money. +Reasoning: + +* If the processor is not a hybrid CPU-GPU-VPU, the + complexity involved in developing a split shared-memory CPU-GPU both + at a hardware and a software level will be so costly it will jeapordise + the project. +* The project is commercial and mass-volume because there are plenty + of academic designs (none of them reaching production where people + may benefit), and "Open" designs, created by the Open Hardware + Community, sadly due to the high cost of producing ASICs, tend to be + focussed on markets that would have been great about twenty to thirty + years ago. +* Transparency is a key business objective. It is a Unique Selling Point + that the processor is developed in a fashion that, should it be + independently audited, no opportunity for spying back-door co-processors + will be found to have "made their way surreptitiously - or overtly - + into the design". Yes, GCHQ: I know about the conversation you had + with nCipher (and, to their everlasting credit, that they told you + to take a hike) + # Links: * [[shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu]]