[manticore] Back to life

[Ling Andrew Chaang]

I was thinking,

we could just use the interface I have already, it's just not user
friendly at all, like sending stuff and getting stuff will not be
intuitive...

the reason I propose this is becuase we know it works, plus, this is only
for testing anyway,

Andrew

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Jeff Mrochuk wrote:

> Okay been kinda dead for a while
> 
> Now that I have the quartus software I'm going to start working on the
> SDRAM controller to make it more efficient.   
> 
> Benj is finishing up the documentation.
> 
> Andrew: I have the perfect thing for you to work on if you want to.  It
> should be easy because you've pretty much already done it. I think it would 
> be good idea to have an RS-232 interface for loading
> triangles so we can test the renderer and triangle buffer before we do a
> PCI interface.  Basically it needs to send three fixed point numbers at
> a time.  The numbers are 10-6, so 10 binary digits for the number and 6
> for the decimal part. So bursts would be of 3x16 binary digits.  We'd
> also need the software side of things. Reply if you're interested.
> Shouldn't be much different than the software/hardware you wrote for the
> neural project.
> 
> Jeff
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