[Milkymist-devel] Schematics Milkymist One

[Gerard Braad]

Hi Guys,

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq
<sebastien.bourdeauducq at lekernel.net> wrote:
> On Monday 29 March 2010 16:18:37 Henk wrote:
>> Expandability is a key feature it will potentially attract and bundle
>> resources that are now fragmented in the FPGA community.
>
> Yes, but each feature we add comes with more work for us, and we are few. We'd
> rather focus than try to run in every direction and end up doing nothing good.

I have to agree with Sébastien on this. I had raised the same topic
before to Wolfgang (Qi Hardware [1]), to create a cheap(er)
alternative to the USRP [2]. This is IMHO currently out of scope for
Milkymist. We do not have hardware yet (or verified as being
reliable). We also have no complete toolchain or OS running on the
SoC. And still lots more...

But this doesn't take away the idea. I would also love to to see a
USRP-like platform running the Milkymist SoC, to work with GNUradio
[3], since this would create options to enter the wireless/RF market
and start developing open source implementations protocols, etc. Just
bear with us.

kind regards,


Gerard

[1] http://www.qi-hardware.com/
[2] http://www.ettus.com/products
[3] http://gnuradio.org/