Kickstarter: Open Source Graphics Processor (GPU)

[Balint Szente]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:31:13 +0200
"Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> Has anyone experience with the Zynq-7000? It has dual Cortex A9 with
> VFP/Neon - but apparently lacks a GPU... Such a combination could be
> comparable with OMAP3/4 in computation power.

Exactly, it has just a simple framebuffer. Even a basic 2D accelerator
would be a huge improvement to save the ARM CPU power.

I consider this GPU very useful for the Parallella board for example.
<http://www.adapteva.com/products/parallella/parallella/>
The GPU would stay in the Zynq-7020, so the Epiphany chip can do
other dedicated tasks (numerical calculus, simulations, whatever).