Re: [oc] Inquiry

[Rudolf Usselmann <rudi@asics.ws>]

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 21:02, John Kent wrote:
> Hi Rudi,
> 
> I'm sorry if I upset people.
> 
> I have a number of cores on my web site that are in various  stages of 
> completion.
> I'm a novice at this .... I've been only designing VHDL cores for a year.
> I've been writing realtime embedded software for about 15 years and 
> spend 5 years
> at a government research organisation, where I spent some time working on
> frame rate image processing hardware.
> 
> I would have thought the size and functionality of my cores at least are 
> not up to scratch
> with a comercial ones.

John,

there are many novices and amateurs and just as many professionals
writing IP cores and donating the IPs to OC. I have seen some IP
cores from amateurs that where commercial grade IP cores. And of
course there are those that are not. The point is people should
not judge an organization by a few sour apples. As you can see
people actually build *real chips* with IPs from OpenCores.


> If you look at the size of a VHDL core and compare them to the complexity of
> normal software, they are not that big or terribly complex. My System09 
> CPU core is
> only 300K of source code.

Well, we can probably start a big flame war of what is easier
and what is harder to design, software or hardware. I'm sure
each of us has his own opinion about it, and may be you are a
better hardware designer than a software designer, I don't
know and don't want to judge you.

BTW: We don't judge HW by the size of the source code but by
the number of gates ! :*)

> 
> John.

Regards, 
rudi               
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