Posted on Saturday, May 24 2008 @ 5:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Hack a Day
writes the Open Graphics Project is now taking preorders for their OGD1 open-source graphics card, the product is priced at $1,500.
The Open Graphics Project has started accepting preorders for their OGD1, a graphics card with a completely open source design. This initial release is billed as a high-end FPGA prototyping kit specifically designed to test computer graphics architectures. The card has two DVI connectors, S-Video, 256MB RAM, and a 64bit PCI-X connector. The core of the system is a Xilinx Spartan-3 XC3S4000 FPGA. A nonvolatile Lattice XP10 FPGA is used to bootstrap the Xilinx at power up. Here's the layout of the specific components.
