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From: anindya_ray at hotmail.com<anindya_ray@h...>
Date: Thu Oct 4 00:09:35 CEST 2007
Subject: [oc] Made In India OLPC With OpenCores SOC
How can I reach you ?
My email is
anindya_ray@h...
----- Original Message -----
From: Jecel Assumpcao Jr<jecel@m...>
To:
Date: Tue Oct 2 01:43:23 CEST 2007
Subject: [oc] Made In India OLPC With OpenCores SOC
> I have been working on a project similar to OLPC for many years in
> Brazil. For the last few years I have had a partner in
> India/Singapore
> who is waiting for me to send him some prototypes so he can start
> making
> machines there as well. Currently I am working on the processor
> cores
> that we will use and the first generation will be based on FPGAs.
> All
> the cores and software being created for this project will be
> available
> under a BSD/MIT style license.
> While the OLPC computer is a Linux PC, my project is a Smalltalk
> machine. Since OLPC includes Squeak/eToys as one of their
> activities
> there is a lot of overlap between the two projects. My previous
> processors designs were optimized exclusively for Smalltalk but the
> current one will work well with languages such as Java and Python
> besides doing a very good job dealing with C. Though a port would
> not be
> trivial, it would be possible to run Linux on this, so this might
> be an
> option for a second generation OLPC machine. Here is a really short
> description of the processor:
> http://www.merlintec.com:8080/hardware/RISC42
> On the same site I have some pictures of my computers for children
> going
> back to 1983:
> http://www.merlintec.com:8080/hardware/album
> -- Jecel Assumpcao Jr
> Merlintec Computers Ltda
> P.S.: the OLPC generously sent me a BTest-2 prototype to thank me
> for
> the talks I have been giving about their project, so I have a lot
> of
> experience using the XO-1
> anindya_ray wrote:
> > Yes, it is possible.
> > Who is interested in getting this going ?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: big one<bigone at q...>
> > To:
> > Date: Mon Sep 24 19:32:12 CEST 2007
> > Subject: [oc] Made In India OLPC With OpenCores SOC
> >
> > > Last year Indian government rejected OLPC (One Laptop Per
> Child)
> > > project. OLPC project had problems with rising components
> price. Mr
> > > Walter Bender (OLPC) said that future OLPC will use non
> x86 CPU.
> > > What about OLPC with all-in-one, system-on-chip based on
> design
> > > from OpenCores?
> > >
> > > The SOC can be mass manufactured by India Semiconductor
> > > Manufacturing Company (ISMC) or other IC Fab in India.
> There are
> > > several LCD manufacturer in India such as Deepakshi,
> Videocon,
> > > Wintek etc.
> > >
> > > IMO Indian government will accept this OLPC because the
> products
> > > are made in India. This OLPC can be exported to other
> countries.
> > >
> > > Is this idea possible?
> > > Thank you.
>
>
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