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From: Rudolf Usselmann<rudi@a...>
Date: Thu Jun 30 18:42:42 CEST 2005
Subject: warning [Was: Re: [oc] MP3 Decoder in VHDL]
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 16:38 +0200, Günter Dannoritzer wrote:
>
> Actually there are two MP3 decoder projects and one even has files for
> download. I think the "me too" emails show the ignorance of those people
> to even try to find something on the open cores page.
>
> That brings me to some thoughts I have bee pondering about recently. It
> is in a way a jump of thought, but it also has to do with it, in the way
> of how many people are there to contribute to this community and how
> many are only taking advantage of it.
>
> I guess the logic development cannot be compared with the software
> development, but I was just wondering when looking how vibrant
> sourceforge is, what makes it that way and what can be done to get open
> cores in that direction too?
>
> One simple difference is the amount of people starting projects on
> sourceforge, but maybe there is a way of adding features to open cores
> that would attract more people to start and also finish projects?
>
> I think finishing a project is quite different between software and
> logic projects. The software is never finished, but everybody uses it
> already, it just reaches a certain version with certain features. With
> the logic there is a defined state where you put the stamp "done" to it.
> Mostly only then it really can be used.
>
> But then there seems to be a difference between open cores and
> sourceforge and that is in the amount of projects that get started but
> never make it over the planning state. Maybe I am wrong and sourceforge
> has that too?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Guenter
Guenter,
I think there are two main differences between HW IP Cores and
software:
1) it's much easier (well, I mean the development process) to
write and "try" software. All you do is compile it and run
it. If you like it you keep it ...
With hardware, you need dedicated tools, development boards,
etc. It's a much more closed community. Just because I have
a PC, I can not try out an HW IP Core. The investment, financial
and time-wise is much larger.
2) Probably somewhat relates to #1 above, the software community
is much, much larger than the HW one. Look at home many members
sourceforge has, and compare it to the number of *users* of
opencores. I think software went through similar growing pains
in the early days ... I remember bulletin boards enforcing a
download/upload ratio ... now of course a thing of the past.
I too would like to see more contributors, and less of the "email
me the code" garbage ... if this would be my board I would black
list those people ... ;*)
Best Regards,
rudi
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