[manticore] Back to life

Jeff Mrochuk mrochuk at ee.ualberta.ca
Tue May 21 19:22:18 EDT 2002


Yeah sure, your current UI is fine

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 15:50, Ling Andrew Chaang wrote:
> 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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