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. _____________________________________________________________ = You want FREE web-based email ? = You want your own @qon.lao.net address?? = Then you want LaoNet's WebMail ! = Get it at http://webmail.lao.net !!

Yes, it is possible. Who is interested in getting this going ? ----- Original Message ----- From: big onebigone at q...> To: Date: Mon Sep 24 19:32:12 CEST 2007 Subject: [oc] Made In India OLPC With OpenCores SOC

I am interested> To: cores at opencores.org> Subject: Re: [oc] Made In India OLPC With OpenCores SOC> From: anindya_ray at hotmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:29:21 +0200> > > Yes, it is possible.> Who is interested in getting this going ?> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: big onebigone 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. > > _____________________________________________________________ > > = You want FREE web-based email ? > > = You want your own @qon.lao.net address?? > > = Then you want LaoNet's WebMail ! > > = Get it at http://webmail.lao.net !! > > > > > _______________________________________________> http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/cores _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/attachments/20071001/ce09a4c8/attachment.htm

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:

How can I reach you ? My email is anindya_ray at hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Jecel Assumpcao Jrjecel at m...> To: Date: Tue Oct 2 01:43:23 CEST 2007 Subject: [oc] Made In India OLPC With OpenCores SOC