http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/02 … hes_tegra/
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tegra_600_us.html
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Unlikely. I’m pretty sure you’ll only see 650 and 600 based products from really large OEMs. I bet the minimum annual commit is >100K
Philba:
Unlikely. I’m pretty sure you’ll only see 650 and 600 based products from really large OEMs. I bet the minimum annual commit is >100K
Agreed, but it never hurts to ask!
those things probably also require a non disclosure agreement just to take a peek at a datasheet.
Those would be really cool for building your own set top box to stream video from the computer/internet. From what I understand, there aren’t a lot of low cost chips out there that can handle encoding/decoding HDTV resolution video.
It’ll be really interesting to see how this platform develops.
actually, there are a TON chips - very low cost. However, they come from companies like nvidia, broadcom, marvell, sigma designs, media tech, nxp, ST, TI, Intel … Unfortunately, these companies really only care about big design wins - high volume customers. The development tools, libraries, documentation are all only available under NDA. These often have built in decoders for MPEG II, h.264, MPEG 4, … This how consumer level devices can be sold so cheap.
Sadly, this is how the world works. Not hobbyist friendly at all.
I was referring to STB’s like the popcorn hour and a couple of others (myka?) that stream HD content. According to the discussion on the mythtv mailing list, most all of these boxes are based on a single reference design, which as you correctly point out, is under a restrictive NDA.