Re: Parallella project on Kickstarter
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> I was just about to pledge (actually thinking for two boards) and then
> noticed it has no SATA.
... this is a good example. you see how if a processor doesn't have
the expected industry-standard interfaces and functionality, it's not
commercially viable?
i'd looked at the parallela earlier when it came out on slashdot last
week. if it had the standard set of on-board interfaces - SATA, HDMI,
RG-MII and so on - i'd go "GREAT!" and i'd even put up with the
anticipated software hell.
... but they're not doing that.
what they're asking you to fund them for is the mask charges and
production costs of a chip which will *only* have multi-lane LVDS and
a DDR RAM interface. this multi-lane LVDS will be wired up to an
FPGA; the FPGA will be wired up to an ARM processor which *doesn't*
even, as lennart has noticed, have SATA.
they've had a great idea - get onto kickstarter, raise some awareness
of the product - they may even have a great product *but* it's a
*component* which needs to be part of a well-thought-out and
well-executed *business* strategy with a targetted market (even if
that target market is "general-purpose computing").
i wish they'd offered more, i really do.
l.
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