http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/
Like this one, for example:
http://store.nvidia.com/DRHM/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=nvidia&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&productID=67049700

And yes, it might be able to play Crysis, but it'd rather do more interesting things like curing cancer.]]>May 21st 2008 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are basically chips that can be reprogrammed to be whatever you want them to be. Unlike that GeForce you mentioned, I could reprogram this chip to be whatever I wanted it to be. If I wanted it to suddenly be an x86 processor, all I'd have to do is write the VHDL or Verilog (hardware description languages) and download the compiled result to it. Get it?]]>May 21st 2008 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/
And, to all those that like to ask redundant questions-- a graphics card that can run Crysis perfectly [on Vista] with all bells-and-whistles without loss of framerates does not exist... yet.]]>May 21st 2008 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 22nd 2008 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 21st 2008 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/
The people that built your-high end graphics cards used many chips like that one to simulate and verify their designs before sending them off to China to have them fabricated.]]>May 21st 2008 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/virtex_boards_feature.htm]]>May 21st 2008 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/
Still, it's a friggin' POS Spartan. Though in their defense, that means you can use Webpack with this board.

But still... it's a friggin' POS Spartan.]]>May 22nd 2008 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 22nd 2008 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 22nd 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/
FPGA is awesome for the fact that they can do a lot with a very low clock speed, due to the way you can parallelise the code for pipelining. But yes, it's also pricey.]]>May 22nd 2008 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 22nd 2008 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 22nd 2008 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/
For example:

do
{
par
{
// Pipeline Stage 1 - Read Data
if(NotVisible != 0)
{
// prime the pipeline for the start of the next line
par
{
if( MousePtr->LeftButton )
RC100ReadSSRAM1((sy + 1)]]>May 22nd 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/
do{
par{
//Pipeline Stage 1 - Read Data
par{
RC100ReadSSRAM1(RAMAddress, ramcontent);
Pixel = ramcontentOutput = Pixel;
}
}while(1);]]>May 22nd 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 22nd 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 22nd 2008 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 22nd 2008 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/May 22nd 2008 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/open-source-ogd1-graphics-card-up-for-pre-order/
Wait, I still cant afford it. Oh well. I dont have the mad skills required to use a card like this as it is.

At least I understand what a dev card is, unlike 75% of the other comments...]]>May 22nd 2008 3:52PM