From 69576cbd0ca58e98ebbf525d827b377fe7ad04fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 22:52:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] update description --- markdown/pre-launch.md | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/markdown/pre-launch.md b/markdown/pre-launch.md index 64cab9d..e429b63 100644 --- a/markdown/pre-launch.md +++ b/markdown/pre-launch.md @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -The Libre RISC-V M-Class is a RISC-V chip that is libre-licensed to the +Libre-SOC is to be an augmented POWER ISA compliant chip that is +libre-licensed to the bedrock. It is a low-power, mobile-class, 64-bit Quad-Core SoC at a minimum 800mhz clock rate, suitable for tablet, netbook, and industrial embedded systems. Full source code and files are available not only @@ -7,16 +8,15 @@ its peripherals and its 3D GPU and VPU. {kazan-logo} -Onboard the Libre RISC-V M-Class is the +Onboard Libre-SOC is the [Kazan](https://salsa.debian.org/Kazan-team/kazan) GPU, a 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 for and added to the Libre RISC-V M-Class -SoC, yet Kazan itself may still be used (unoptimised) on other hardware. +instructions specifically designed for and added to Libre-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 +The performance target for Kazan on Libre-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. +(under 2.5 watts in a 28 nm process). -- 2.30.2