Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?
From: Chris Friesen
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 12:02:18 EST
Timothy Miller wrote:
Anyhow, the reason for that long discussion is because I see chip design
and software programming as generally incompatible mindsets. Sure, one
can certainly help you to learn the other, but many methodologies that
apply to one would be horrible to apply to the other.
Hmm...I've got a buddy doing a Master's in codesign, where you literally design
the chip and the software to run on it at the same time, so you can simulate
them both at the same time and optimise which bits you do in hardware and which
in software.
Seems to me that chip design and software programming (at least for low-level
high-performance stuff) are tightly intertwined.
Of course there's the other side of things where you write in prolog or lisp and
are totally abstracted from the hardware--but I don't see too many people
writing e.g. graphics drivers in those languages.
Chris
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