Am 2008-10-27 17:01:50, schrieb Felipe Sateler: > Jeff Carr wrote: > > > But the opencore case is the easy case, hybrid chips don't even have > > source. The firmware blob is often generated when you fabricate the > > chip & changes with the physical board layout. You guys just don't > > understand the issues here. > > Please explain what the issues are, then. The firmware blob has to be > generated > *somehow*. There is a tool that generates the blob. Which data does the tool > need to generate it?
The IDE/Software which produce the firmware blobs mostly generate it
directly and the projects the developers are using are binary stuff.
Parts of it maybe human readable but not suffisant to compile it or do
anything usefull with it.
And as I have already written, SDCC compiled code is 3 times bigger as
the firmeware blob generated by a 8000 US$ IDE.
And using a Microcontroller/ASIC with bigger memory is no solution since
sometimes it would be very costly...
In my case arround 3 million Euro more for the final production (18mio).
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
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