From: lkcl Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:06:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: convert-csv-opcode-to-binary~3668 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ceab1f27f968f381a5117975749a19d2b006cc44;p=libreriscv.git --- diff --git a/3d_gpu.mdwn b/3d_gpu.mdwn index dc83ee657..0693253c9 100644 --- a/3d_gpu.mdwn +++ b/3d_gpu.mdwn @@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ Note: this is a **hybrid** CPU, VPU and GPU. It is not, as many news articles are implying, a "dedicated exclusive GPU". The option exists to **create** a stand-alone GPU product (contact us if this is a product that you want). Our primary goal is to design a **complete** all-in-one processor -(System-on-a-Chip) that happens to include a libre-licensed VPU and GPU. +(System-on-a-Chip) that happens to include libre-licensed VPU and GPU +accelerated instructions as part of the actual - main - CPU itself. -We seek investors, sponsors (whose contributions thanks to NLNet may be tax-deductible), engineers and potential customers, who are +We seek investors, sponsors (whose contributions thanks to NLNet may be +tax-deductible), engineers and potential customers, who are interested, as a first product, in the creation and use of an entirely libre low-power mobile class system-on-a-chip. Comparative benchmark performance, pincount and price is the Allwinner A64, except that the @@ -27,11 +29,14 @@ the cost of product development when it comes to PCB design and layout: We can look at larger higher-power ASICs either later or, if funding is made available, immediately. -Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm, 64 bit, single core dual issue, around 300 to 350mhz. This will provide the confidence to go to higher geometries, as well as be a commercially viable embedded product in its own right. +Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm, +64 bit, single core dual issue, around 300 to 350mhz. This will provide +the confidence to go to higher geometries, as well as be a commercially +viable embedded product in its own right. # Business Objectives -* the project shall be a hybrid CPU-GPU +* the project shall be a hybrid CPU-GPU-VPU * 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