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| 11:39.55 | Maloeran | In case you happen to see this question, pra5ad, what is your preference between Verilog and vhdl, if you don't mind me asking? After learning the basics of both, I'm still unsure which way to go |
| 12:02.59 | Maloeran | I have the vague dream of implementing raytracing hardware, a fpga. I really like the level of parallelism found at the hardware design level, it's both challenging and has nice potential for high performance |
| 12:11.17 | archivist | hmm opensource 3D hardware graphics engine |
| 12:12.30 | Maloeran | Open-source, possibly... Are you part of the Brl-Cad team? If yes, would you mind me asking what your first name is? |
| 12:12.48 | Maloeran | Just to associate the correct nicknames to the people I know |
| 12:14.12 | archivist | Im external in UK |
| 12:14.37 | archivist | Dave Caroline |
| 12:15.21 | Maloeran | Right, we haven't met :) |
| 12:21.17 | archivist | unless you were at Dayton hamfest a few years ago |
| 12:52.24 | ``Erik | wasn't there a group trying to make an "open source" video card (regular ogl&fb style) ... |
| 12:56.51 | archivist | I seem to remember something but the I suppose nvidia et al keep producing faster stuff overtaking opensource efforts |
| 12:59.14 | pra5ad | no preference here |
| 13:03.15 | pra5ad | heh the only thing i can say from my experience is that abel is dead |
| 13:03.17 | pra5ad | :) |
| 13:04.58 | Maloeran | That couldn't possibly work too well, ``Erik, I doubt the funding matches Nvidia's |
| 13:05.22 | Maloeran | On the other hand, if the raytracing techniques are released under a license that forbids commercial use... :) |
| 13:06.39 | archivist | is there ray tracing in the commercials that could be used |
| 13:07.10 | Maloeran | I have one written right here, faster than anything else |
| 13:09.53 | Maloeran | So pra5ad, you use both equally? Is each better for some tasks? |
| 13:13.48 | ``Erik | hey, I didn't say it was a good idea or that it had a chance, just that something like that existed at some point :) (and it's goal wasn't to compete with nvidia, more like commoditizing the low/mid end of the market so drivers for non-ms os's wouldn't suck) |
| 13:14.48 | archivist | using fpga for the job enables future proofing as well |
| 13:15.39 | ``Erik | eh? |
| 13:16.14 | ``Erik | the fp in fpga means it can be updated in the future, as long as the new design doesn't use more cells than the fpga has... |
| 13:16.39 | ``Erik | now an asic would mean new masks, new runs, and all the old ic's are garbage... |
| 13:17.06 | ``Erik | one of these days, I'm gonna dust off the fpga experimentors board sitting in my cabinet |
| 13:17.29 | archivist | fpga things usually cost to much for commodity cards though |
| 13:18.00 | ``Erik | depends on the price of the card and size of the run |
| 13:18.22 | ``Erik | a lot of commodity small run equipment uses fpga's cuz it's cheaper than asic... |
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| 18:30.27 | digitalfredy | brlcad: overview is aprox 80% in docbook xml :) |
| 18:32.05 | digitalfredy | bye i have to go |
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| 18:36.41 | brlcad | sweet |
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