From 8a5bb7a1fd80928e6e838d54f514e2386e47451f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 02:01:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add business objectives --- 3d_gpu.mdwn | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/3d_gpu.mdwn b/3d_gpu.mdwn index 89a432b62..a98d095ec 100644 --- a/3d_gpu.mdwn +++ b/3d_gpu.mdwn @@ -29,7 +29,22 @@ 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. -See: +# 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 commercial and mass-volume (100 million units + and above) +* the project shall be entirely transparent so that end-users will be + able to trust it +* the source code shall be available at all times for all components + for BUSINESS reasons, making development and use of SDKs dead simple + and aiding and assisting developers AND BUSINESSES in debugging and thus + hugely saving them money. + +# Links: * [[shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu]] * [[discussion]] @@ -45,7 +60,7 @@ See: * NLNet Project Page * [[nlnet_proposals]] -Progress: +# Progress: * Dec 2019: Second round NLNet questions answered. External Review completed. 6 NLNet proposals accepted (EUR 200,000+) * Nov 2019: Alternative FP library to Berkeley softfloat developed. NLNet first round questions answered. -- 2.30.2