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From: Jecel Assumpcao Jr<jecel@m...>
Date: Tue Oct 2 01:43:23 CEST 2007
Subject: [oc] Made In India OLPC With OpenCores SOC
I have been working on a project similar to OLPC for many years in
Brazil. For the last few years I have had a partner in India/Singapore
who is waiting for me to send him some prototypes so he can start making
machines there as well. Currently I am working on the processor cores
that we will use and the first generation will be based on FPGAs. All
the cores and software being created for this project will be available
under a BSD/MIT style license.
While the OLPC computer is a Linux PC, my project is a Smalltalk
machine. Since OLPC includes Squeak/eToys as one of their activities
there is a lot of overlap between the two projects. My previous
processors designs were optimized exclusively for Smalltalk but the
current one will work well with languages such as Java and Python
besides doing a very good job dealing with C. Though a port would not be
trivial, it would be possible to run Linux on this, so this might be an
option for a second generation OLPC machine. Here is a really short
description of the processor:
http://www.merlintec.com:8080/hardware/RISC42
On the same site I have some pictures of my computers for children going
back to 1983:
http://www.merlintec.com:8080/hardware/album
-- Jecel Assumpcao Jr
Merlintec Computers Ltda
P.S.: the OLPC generously sent me a BTest-2 prototype to thank me for
the talks I have been giving about their project, so I have a lot of
experience using the XO-1
anindya_ray wrote:
> Yes, it is possible.
> Who is interested in getting this going ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: big one<bigone@q...>
> To:
> Date: Mon Sep 24 19:32:12 CEST 2007
> Subject: [oc] Made In India OLPC With OpenCores SOC
>
> > Last year Indian government rejected OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
> > project. OLPC project had problems with rising components price. Mr
> > Walter Bender (OLPC) said that future OLPC will use non x86 CPU.
> > What about OLPC with all-in-one, system-on-chip based on design
> > from OpenCores?
> >
> > The SOC can be mass manufactured by India Semiconductor
> > Manufacturing Company (ISMC) or other IC Fab in India. There are
> > several LCD manufacturer in India such as Deepakshi, Videocon,
> > Wintek etc.
> >
> > IMO Indian government will accept this OLPC because the products
> > are made in India. This OLPC can be exported to other countries.
> >
> > Is this idea possible?
> > Thank you.
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