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From: Bill Cox<bill@v...>
Date: Sat Feb 7 17:59:30 CET 2004
Subject: [oc] SoC Builder
Hi, Damjan.Damjan Lampret wrote: >>I certainly want to have this project hosted by OpenCores. I tried to
>>register the project on Saturday or Sunday, but haven't gotten any
>>response. Should I try again?
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>Did you managed to have it registered? Did you get a mailing list? Let me
>know if you have any problems.
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Yes, I got it registered. No mailing list yet, so far as I know. I
have CVS access, now, but I can't control who else has it on OpenCores.
On sourceforge, I've already made mailing lists, and I've added all the
developers who wanted to help (except one who's account causes
sourceforge to crash). I'll cross-post the CVS code, so we have all the
code in both places.
>True. Flextronics is one of the major FPGA to ASIC conversion vendors and
>for conversion open source means easy to handle. However Flextronics also
>does SOCs (RTL-to-GDS flow). In this case the situation gets a little
>different. However Flextronics is very open minded and believes you need to
>be on the bleeding edge of changes or you will be run over by competition. I
>think open source has an excellent future also in hardware (to be more
>specific in cores and SoCs). IBM is now embracing Linux after many decades
>of pushing proprietary software. I think IBM in ten years will be doign the
>same with hardware intellectual property (cores and SoCs).
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>>Wow! I noticed that the copyright says the manual is confidential. Is
>>this a problem? Is it ok if I read it?
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>I have attached a more apropriate version. FLINT as a whole is still
>proprietary, but copy of the manual you can read it and if majority thinks
>this could be good underlaying technology for the SoC Builder, then I will
>talk to Flex management.
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Cool. Thanks for the documentation. Even if Flex doesn't offer Flint,
this can help us in nailing down just what SoC Builder should do.
Bill
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