Support for Boser crusoe board?
Bari Ari
bari at onelabs.com
Wed Oct 29 21:14:00 CET 2003
Another vendor to look at for graphics parts in smaller quantities is
Silicon Motion
http://www.siliconmotion.com
They also have usually been able to spin a new Video BIOS and/or video
drivers in a few days. This is great when you need to support a new
display resolution or LCD panel.
-Bari
Richard Smith wrote:
> Nick Jarmany wrote:
>
>> You should be aware that the Agilent (C&T) F69000 is end-of-life. Last
>> shipments I believe are early next year.
>>
>
> Note its Asiliant not Agilent. http://www.asiliant.com Last time buy is
> Feburary 2004. The semi shop making the die is phasing out the process.
> I guess they were not moving enough of them to justify a re-spin onto
> a new smaller process. Of course they also may have not had the IP do
> it either.
>
> Asiliant is basically a bunch of ex-intel, who used to be C&T that when
> intel decided to shutdown C&T they bought the rights to the C&T dies and
> started selling them as Asiliant. It's possible that Intel only sold
> them the die masks and not the VHDL to generate them.
>
> And its a damn shame. Its caused us some heartache as we really didn't
> find a good replacemnet for them. We had to redesign our own SBC
> products with ATI M1 chips. ATI (via our Arrow vendor) has been _much_
> more difficult to work with.
>
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