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Wish List - Hardware:FPGA

2008-07-15T20:13:19Z

Jcarroll: /* AT91CAP9S500A (ARM9 + FPGA-port) */

===AT91CAP9S500A (ARM9 + FPGA-port)===
Why FPGA?:
*[http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1689 October 17, 2007 ucr.edu: UC Riverside Research Leads to Self-Improving Chips with Speed ‘Warping’] Computer science research results in new technology that can outperform standard microprocessors up to 1,000 times.
*[http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39166443,00.htm?r=1 20 March 2007 Green supercomputer is 'go' in Scotland] Quote: "...A supercomputer 10 times more energy efficient and up to 300 times faster than its traditional equivalents..."
*[http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=OGPN17 Dec 10th 2006 Open Graphics Project Newsletter] Quote: "...We know how long you have dreamt about the possibility of a fully open graphics card. We have the First Photographs of what will be a genuinely Open Graphics Card. This card is not a dream. The card is real...The prototype, is a PCI based FPGA development card with dual DVI output, TV-out and three 300MHz Analog to Digital Converters..."
*[http://csg.csail.mit.edu/oshd/ MIT: FPGA projects: E.g. HD quality H.264 baseline profile decoder. Supports 1080p at 60 frames per second]

Take a look at this microcontroller, that integrates an ARM9 microcontroller and a dedicated FPGA port: AT91CAP9S500A. It has "only" a max. clock at 200MHz, but can use a FPGA for hardware acceleration, that could be used for video (de)compression, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AacPlus_v2 aacPlus v2]/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HE-AAC_v2 HE-AAC v2] sound (de)compression and many other things. HE-AAC v2 is better than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 MP3].
*[http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?family_id=689&family_name=AT91CAP+Microcontrollers&part_id=4137 AT91CAP9S500A] Quote: "...The AT91CAP9S500A is built around a 12-layer bus matrix, allowing a maximum internal bandwidth of twelve 32-bit buses. Its distributed DMA architecture enables multiple data transfers to take place between the processor, memories and peripherals with minimal processor overhead...".
*[http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc6310.pdf GNU-Based Software Development on AT91SAM Microcontrollers]
*Maybe this is a good tool?:
**[http://www.arsc.edu/news/archive/fpga/Wed-1030-Najjar.pdf Compiled Acceleration of C Codes for FPGAs (pdf)] Quote: "...Riverside Optimizing Compiler for Configurable Computing. A C/C++ to VHDL compiler...Same speed as hand-written VHDL codes...[http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~roccc/ ROCCC] is not intended to compile the whole code to FPGA. Only compute intensive code segments, typically parallel loops..."
**[http://www.jhdl.org/ BYU JHDL, Open Source FPGA CAD Tools]
*** [[user:jcarroll|I]] work for the lab that produced JHDL. Are you interested in using it? --[[User:Jcarroll|Jcarroll]] 20:13, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
*[http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=197002705 02/05/2007, FPGA tool bottleneck stalls HPC] Quote: "...Current FPGA synthesis, placement and routing tools are written for hardware designers, not software programmers simply trying to accelerate an algorithm..."

This seems to be a good hardware mix (ARM+FPGA). It does [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora Ogg Theora] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MJPEG MJPEG] in the FPGA with 1 million gates:
*http://sourceforge.net/projects/elphel, [http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=10353 board 10353], [http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Camera_hardware camera hardware], [http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Main page], [http://www.elphel.com/articles/index.html Imaging solutions with Free software and open hardware]

Just another FPGA+microcontroller example:
*[http://melzer.ch/html/body_alya.html The Alya Project] ([http://home.nikocity.de/andymon/hfg/Alya/alya.html old page])
*[http://melzer.ch/ALYA.ASM PIC assembler source code], [http://melzer.ch/ALYA.TDF Altera FPGA code]. Schematic: [http://melzer.ch/Schaltplan1.gif], [http://melzer.ch/Schaltplan2.gif], [http://melzer.ch/Schaltplan3.gif]

I do not think this means what you think it means... I read "...and a metal programmable (MP) block of 500K gates of digital logic." as meaning that it's a one-time programmable block, more akin to a standard-cell ASIC than an FPGA. This is supported by the fact that their development board contains a separate FPGA chip. Now, granted, having a 500K gate ASIC on board an ARM is a cool thing... but not quite as cool as this chip appeared at first glance.

==Possible FPGA==
This FPGA is just an example:
*[http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon_solutions/fpgas/spartan_series/spartan3an_fpgas/capabilities/index.htm Spartan-3AN FPGA Capabilities] Quote: "...Simple and secure embedded application storage with up to 11Mb of integrated user Flash...Enable simple arithmetic and math functions as well as advanced DSP functions to derive over 330 Giga MACs/sec...Up to 32 18 x 18 embedded multipliers support 18-bit signed or 17-bit unsigned multiplication, and can be cascaded to support wider bits..."
**XC3S1400AN-4FGG676CES $91
**XC3S200AN-4FTG256CES $25.87

====Tool for FPGAs====
*[http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm xilinx.com: ISE WebPACK is the industry´s only FREE, fully featured front-to-back FPGA design solution for Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista]

===Asynchronous FPGA, AFPGA===
*[http://www.achronix.com/products.html Achronix-ULTRA]
**[http://www.pldesignline.com/news/186700955 Achronix preps 2-GHz Asynchronous FPGA for sampling in 2007]
**[http://vlsi.cornell.edu/fpga.php Asynchronous VLSI and Architecture, Cornell University: Asynchronous Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (AFPGAs)] Quote: "...integrated pipelining support..."
**[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/teifel03programmable.html Programmable Asynchronous Pipeline Arrays (2003) John Teifel, Rajit Manohar]

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Openmoko Local Groups: Provo

2008-07-15T20:11:45Z

Jcarroll: Redirecting to Openmoko Local Groups: Salt Lake

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User:Jcarroll

2008-07-15T20:10:57Z

Jcarroll: /* See Also */

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== Other ==
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== See Also ==
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* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Jcarroll jcarroll profile] at SugarLabs
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2008-07-15T20:10:33Z

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2008-07-15T20:10:07Z

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2008-07-15T20:09:41Z

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2008-07-15T20:05:08Z

Jcarroll:

== Skills ==
* C, perl, Java
* (FL)OSS Licensing
** GPL, BSD, MIT (Expat)

== Ubication ==
* Boise, ID
* soon to be Provo, UT

== Other ==
* I would like to work for OpenMoko full-time

== See Also ==
* jcarroll profile at Wikipedia
* jcarroll profile at SugarLabs

User:Jcarroll

2008-07-15T20:02:57Z

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Openmoko:Current events

2008-07-15T20:01:18Z

Jcarroll:

This ''Current Events'' page provides information on both [[Current events#Past | past ]] and [[Current events#Upcoming | future]] events where FIC or [[Openmoko]] had or will have a presence.

== Upcoming ==
* 2008-07-15: [http://nsbeghana.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=2 African Technology Conference 2008] July 15-18, 2008 | Accra, Ghana, West Africa | The panel is scheduled for Thursday, July 17, 2008 from 2:00pm-3:30pm | Sean is attending
* 2008-08-04: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ LinuxWorld 2008] August 04-07, 2008 | Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA | in booth 1625 and in the Linux Garage Pavilion booth 1234 in the Moscone Center North Hall | Michael, Harry, and Steve will be there
* 2008-08-23: [http://www.froscon.org FrOSCon 2008] August 23-24, 2008 | Bonn / St.Augustin, Germany | [[User:Mickey|Mickey]] will have a talk.

== Past ==
* 2008-07-10: [http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp08/ O'Reilly Foo Camp] July 11-13, 2008 | Sebastopol, CA | Michael Shiloh will be there
* 2008-06-24: [http://www.campus-party.com.co/ Campus Party in Colombia] June 23-29, 2008 | Bogota, Colombia | Sean gave a speech on 25th
* 2008-05-28: [http://www.linuxtag.org LinuxTag 2008] May 27-31, 2008 | Berlin, Germany | LinuxTag | [[User:Mickey|Mickey]] had a talk, Openmoko had a booth.
* 2008-05-16: [http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/ BSDCan] May 16-18, 2008 | Ottawa, CA | [[User:Idarwin|Ian Darwin]] presented Openmoko FreeRunner to the BSD crowd.
* 2008-04-09: Wednesday April 9, 2008 | London, UK | [http://ole.tange.dk Ole Tange] presented Openmoko / Freerunner to the [http://www.ukuug.org/events/openmoko/ UK Unix Users Group]
* 2008-04-08: [https://www.linux-foundation.org/events/collaboration The Linux Foundation Spring 2008 Collaboration Summit] April 8-10, 2008 | University of Texas Commons Center, Austin, TX | Sean is invited as one of the speakers
* 2008-03-28: [[Openmoko Education/zh tw]] - Friday March 28, 2008. | Hualien, Taiwan | Taiwan School promotion: Openmoko concepts will be presented at National Dong Hwa University
* 2008-03-26: [[Openmoko Education/zh tw]] - Wednesday March 26, 2008. | Chung Li, Taiwan | Taiwan School promotion: Openmoko concepts will be presented at Yuan Ze University
* 2008-03-16: [http://www.bossaconference.indt.org/ Bossa'08] - March 16-19, 2008 | Porto de Galinhas, Brazil| [[User:Raster|Raster]] is attending and will give a talk
* 2008-03-12: [http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2008-bern/ OpenExpo'08] - March 12-13, 2008 | Bern, Switzerland | [[User:Mickey|Mickey]] is giving a talk about Openmoko | [[User:C7|C7]] is organising an OpenMoko booth
* 2008-03-06: [http://en.oreilly.com/et2008/public/schedule/detail/3330 OpenMoko and Ubiquitous Computing] - March 6, 2008 | San Diego, California | [[User:Michaelshiloh|Michael Shiloh]] is attending and will give a talk at ETech
* 2008-03-03: [[Openmoko Education/zh tw]] - Monday March 3, 2008. | Chung Li, Taiwan | Taiwan School promotion: Openmoko concepts will be presented at Chung Yuan Christian University
* 2008-02-27: [[Openmoko Education/zh tw]] - Wednesday February 27, 2008. | Hsinzhu, Taiwan | Taiwan School promotion: OpenMoko concepts will be presented at National Chiao Tung University
* 2008-02-23: [http://www.fosdem.org Fosdem'08] - February 23-24, 2008 | Brussels, Belgium | OpenMoko will be present at the [http://www.openembedded.org OpenEmbedded] booth, lots of OpenMoko developers will be present. [[Events:FOSDEM_2008 | Will you be there?]]
* 2008-02-22: [[Openmoko Education/zh tw]] - Friday February 22, 2008. | Tainan, Taiwan | Taiwan School promotion: OpenMoko concepts will be presented at National Cheng Kung University
* 2008-02-19: [http://www.oss.org.cn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=677&Itemid=162 2008 Linux Developer Symposium-China] - February 19, 2008 | Beijing, China | Neo1973 was presented in a booth by Sun Liantao from [http://www.csip.org.cn CSIP] and [http://www.beijinglug.org BLUG]
* 2008-02-08: [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ SCALE'08] - February 8-10, 2008 | Los Angeles, USA | [[User:Raster|Raster]] is attending and will man the OpenMoko and Enlightenment booths
* 2008-01-07: Consumer Electronics Trade Show. [[Neo FreeRunner]] was presented. Links to stories, pictures, and videos: 
[[http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on gizmodo]] 
[[http://takezero.net/3g-and-mobile-news/hands-on-with-fics-openmoko-powered-freerunner-2 takezero ]] 
[[http://youtube.com/watch?v=SZsps3bj6yE youtube]] 
[[http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/11/ces_video_openmoko_handset/ reghardware]] 
* 2007-12-19: [[OpenLab 2nd Event/zh tw]] - December 19, Wed. | Taipei, Taiwan | OpenLab 2nd Event: GPL & Apache License Talk and Discussion.
* 2007-11-17: [[Openmoko OpenLab Opening]] - November 17, Sat. | Taipei, Taiwan | OpenLab for OpenMoko Community is going to open.
* 2007-11-04: [http://coscup.org/2007/ Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters] - November 04 | Taipei, Taiwan | Jollen gave a talk about OpenMoko and OpenLab ideas.
* 2007-10-13: [http://onlinux.ca OnLinux Ontario Linux Fest 2007] - October 13 | Toronto, Canada | [[User:Idarwin|Ian Darwin]] gave a talk about Openmoko (slides [http://www.darwinsys.com/openmoko/ here]).
* 2007-10-02: [http://www.coss.fi/web/openmind/programme Openmind Conference] - October 02-03, 2007 | Tampere, Finland | Michael Shiloh as a speaker
* 2007-09-26: [http://imm.dtu.dk/ IMM at Danish Technical University] - [http://ole.tange.dk Ole Tange] is giving a talk.
* 2007-09-23: [http://www.barcamporlando.org/ BarCamp Orlando] Orlando, FL, USA | [[User:Writchie|Wally Ritchie]] will show Neos and talk about Openmoko project
* 2007-09-20: [http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2007-zuerich/ OpenExpo'07] - September 19-20, 2007 | Zurich, Switzerland | [[User:Mickey|Mickey]] gave a talk about OpenMoko | [[User:C7|C7]] was organising an OpenMoko booth
* 2007-09-15: [http://mrmcd110b.metarheinmain.de metarheinmain chaosdays 110b] - ixs igave a [https://mrmcd110b.metarheinmain.de/fahrplan/events/2107.en.html talk]
* 2007-09-12: [http://dmusyd.edu/ Datamatikeruddannelsen i Nykøbing Falster] - [http://ole.tange.dk Ole Tange] gave a talk.
* 2007-08-30: [http://mobiledevices.kom.aau.dk/team_and_organization/events/mobile_developer_days_2007/ Mobile Developer Days 2007] - August 30 - September 2, 2007 | at Aalborg University, Denmark | [[User:Mickey|Mickey]] was invited to give a speech
* 2007-08-25: [http://www.froscon.org/Home.2.0.html?L=1 FrosCon'07] - August 25-26, 2007 | Sankt Augustin, Bonn, Germany | Mickey gave a talk about OpenMoko
* 2007-08-21: [http://www.beijinglug.org/en/index.php Beijing LUG] - August 21, 2007 | Sean and other OpenMoko team members were there to talk and give a presentation
* 2007-08-08 till 08-12: [http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Chaos_Communication_Camp_2007 Chaos Communication Camp 2007] took place in Finowfurt (close to Berlin, Germany) featuring the [http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/GSM_Village GSM Village]
* 2007-08-04: [http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU BarCampRDU] Raleigh, NC, USA | [[User:Writchie|Wally Ritchie]] showed neos and talk about OpenMoko project
* 2007-08-03: [http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page wikimania 2007] - August 03-05, 2007 | Taipei, Taiwan | OpenMoko has been invited to co-host with Wiki heads to promote open content in Taiwan.
* 2007-07-26 [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/ OSCON 2007] | OpenMoko Birds of a Feather session July 26th, Portland Oregon
* 2007-07-15: [http://www.guadec.org GUADEC, The GNOME Conference 2007] - July 15-21, 2007 | Birmingham, United Kingdom | [[User:Mickey|Mickey]] gave a talk about OpenMoko
* 2007-07-10: [http://www.rmll.info 8th Libre Software Meeting] - July 10-14, 2007 | Amiens, France | [http://datenfreihafen.org Stefan Schmidt] gave a [http://www.rmll.info/article136.html?lang=en talk] about OpenEZX and OpenMoko
* 2007-07-09: The [http://www.openmoko.com openmoko.com web shop] was opened; first sales of GTA01_v4 devices.
* 2007-06-05: [http://www.computextaipei.com.tw Computex Taipei 2007] - June 5-9, 2007 | Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan | OpenMoko was in the FIC Group's Booth
* 2007-06-01: [http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/home/welcome.html LinuxTag 2007] - May 30-June-2, 2007 | LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany | [[User:Mickey|Mickey]] gave a [http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/conf/events/vp-speakers/details.html?talkid=84 talk] about OpenMoko
* 2007-05-19: [http://www.makerfaire.com/ Maker Faire Events] -- May 19-May 20, 2007 | San Francisco Bay Area, San Mateo Expo Center, USA | Michael Shiloh and Jon Phillips presented at OpenMoko's booth on behalf of Sean
* 2007-05-08 [http://wiki.tossug.org/SignUp:2007-05 Taipei Open Source Software User Group (TOSSUG)] - Cafe Lumiere, Taipei, Taiwan | May 8, 2007
* 2007-04-04 [http://fostel2007.fostel.org/index.php/Main_Page FOSTEL] - European Institute of Technology, Paris, France | April 4-5, 2007
* 2007-03-16: On March 16, 2007 [[User:Mickey|Mickey]] presented the device at a Zaurus User Group Meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany.
* 2007-03-15: On March 15-18, 2007 there was a Polish Linux User Group conference [http://pingwinaria.linux.org.pl/PLUG/imprezy/pingwinaria/2007/agenda Pingwinaria 2007] in Krynica Zdrój, Poland. Tomasz Zieliński gave a talk about OpenMoko and two Neo1973 devices were present there. Also Marcin Juszkiewicz presented OpenEmbedded project there.
* 2007-03-05: 36 P0 devices shipped to developers.
* 2007-03-03: [http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/program/saturday/Martin_Hansen.shtml Martin Hansen and Ole Tange] spoke at [http://www.linuxforum.dk LinuxForum]
* 2007-02-27: February 27th-March 1st the [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etel2007/ O'Reilly Emerging Telephony conference] was held at the San Francisco Airport Mariott, Burlingame, CA. Open Phones are on the agenda: Sean presented a workshop on February 27; Surj Patel and Matt Hamrick of Tuxphone and the homebrew club also presented. An OpenMoko/Open Phones Social gathering was proposed on the evening of the last day, March 1. We hope Tuxphone and SVHMPC people will join us as well. [[ETel]]
* 2007-02-23: Meeting at [[Events:FOSDEM_2007|FOSDEM 2007]]
* 2007-02-14: The openmoko.org web site was [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007-February/000004.html opened to the public].
* 2007-01-06 [http://www.lunchat.com/ Lunch@Piero's] - CES, Las Vegas, NE | 7-9 January, 2007
* 2006-11-07: [http://www.informatm.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=marlin/home&MarlinViewType=MARKT_EFFORT&siteid=30000000861&marketingid=20001437372&proceed=true&MarEntityId=1162023598681&entHash=100595e9ac1 Open Source in Mobile] - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7-8 November 2006. Sean Moss-Pultz's "Mystery Guest" presentation can be found [http://www.openmoko.com/files/OpenMoko_Amsterdam.pdf here].

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Openmoko Local Groups: Salt Lake

2008-07-15T19:59:57Z

Jcarroll:

Welcome to the Salt Lake OpenMoko page!

This group is for anyone near Salt Lake.

{|border=1
!Name
!Skills
!Level of Interest
!Location
!Other
|-
|[[User:matt|Matt]]
|C, C++, C#, asp.net, Linux Profecient, Ajax, Python, learning some pearl.
|Very interested selling off items to pay for October release. Playing around in the qemu environment. Anyone interested in a Palm TX?
|Orem
|
|-
|[[User:Bmidgley|Brad]]
|Ruby, Bluetooth
|received developer P1
|Highland
|
|-
|[[User:TheAnaconda|Daniel]]
|C, C++, C#, PHP, other stuff
|waiting for October release, experimenting in qemu.
|Magna
|
|-
|[[User:chessing|Chris]]
|C, C++, Linux, Networking, Wireless.
|Interesting in working on all things wireless, and porting XSupplicant to the Moko. I also have a full dev kit in case someone local bricks their Moko.
|West Jordan
|[[Image: MokoBox.jpg|center]]
|-
|[[User:jcarroll|James Carroll]]
|C, Perl, Java, Licensing,
|I would like to work for OpenMoko full-time
|Provo
|Saving up to get mine...

|-
|}
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Openmoko Local Groups: Salt Lake

2008-07-15T19:58:54Z

Jcarroll:

Welcome to the Salt Lake OpenMoko page!

This group is for anyone near Salt Lake.

{|border=1
!Name
!Skills
!Level of Interest
!Location
!Other
|-
|[[User:matt|Matt]]
|C, C++, C#, asp.net, Linux Profecient, Ajax, Python, learning some pearl.
|Very interested selling off items to pay for October release. Playing around in the qemu environment. Anyone interested in a Palm TX?
|Orem
|
|-
|-
|[[User:Bmidgley|Brad]]
|Ruby, Bluetooth
|received developer P1
|Highland
|
|-
|-
|[[User:TheAnaconda|Daniel]]
|C, C++, C#, PHP, other stuff
|waiting for October release, experimenting in qemu.
|Magna
|
|-
|-
|[[User:chessing|Chris]]
|C, C++, Linux, Networking, Wireless.
|Interesting in working on all things wireless, and porting XSupplicant to the Moko. I also have a full dev kit in case someone local bricks their Moko.
|West Jordan
|
|-
|[[User:jcarroll|James Carroll]]
|C, Perl, Java, Licensing,
|I would like to work for OpenMoko full-time
|Provo
|Saving up to get mine...
|-

|}
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