[OLPC-devel] Re: NAND flash controller speed.

[Ronald G Minnich]

David Woodhouse wrote:

> So we should continue to consider the possible alternatives... how much
> would it cost for us to make an ASIC which replaces the on-board NAND
> controller and runs at a decent speed? It isn't particularly complex,
> and Thomas has a working implementation in VHDL which would just need to
> be adapted to the OLPC board. Perhaps we could still connect it via the
> IDE bus, or maybe there's a better option?
> 

ow. ow. ow. I don't think it is possible for price and debug reasons to 
think about an asic from now to this fall.

I lost track of this a bit -- why the heck is this so slow? Is this a 
chipset issue, or what? Are there any usb options we could use, since we 
have usb on there anyway?

ron