[Open-graphics] Designing a CPU

[Carlo Salinari]

Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
> It won't be long before we'll have to design a nanocontroller for OGD1
> to manage VGA and DMA.  I may be able to just go off and design one
> myself, but I think that many of you would fancy observing and
> participating in the design process, and with more brains on it, we'd
> do a better job.


Apart for the unquestionable fun-factor, why not considering one of the
many riscS at opencores? Some of them are already considered
production-quality (e.g. openrisc 1000). I also remember having seen a
free reduced-size implementation of sun's open niagara chip somewhere.
It could be worth a  look.

ciao,	
	Carlo

p.s.
microprocessors at opencores:
http://www.opencores.org/browse.cgi/filter/category_microprocessor