[libre-riscv-dev] Fall 2022 Interfaces

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 19:59 Yehowshua <yimmanuel3 at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Was talking with Pine64 and Raptor about Fall2022 interfaces which I’m
> trying to finalize.
> We can do everything including HDMI, ethernet, DDR4(via OpenCAPI OMI), and
> PCIE with SERDES lanes.
>

hdmi has issues with libre licensing and DRM content, if we're going that
fast, we should just go with display port or similar, since it's an open
standard, I think.


> We need 10rx and 14tx SERDES.
> 4rx and 4tx for the OMI will need to run at 25GHz for DDR4 over OMI.
>

25GHz seems *really* fast, probably impractically so unless going to *lots*
of effort, did you mean 2.5GHz?

Jacob