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Re: presentation for SVFIG



Hi there all miscers!

Nice to have you back Jeff.
Some thoughts on memory: why bother with SDRAM? Wouldn't it be simpler to just 
run SRAM from the whole adress-space? With one MWord (or as pointed out below, 
2*16Mbit), SRAM shouldn't be that much more expensive, when considering it's 
large use in external cashes it should continue to fall in price, and less(?) 
interfacelogic. (the questionmark because I dont know anything about SDRAM 
interfaces, bet many out there know more :)

> I would rather use 2x 1Mx16 DRAM on the next board I do for F21d.
> We may do an F21e before too long if things work out. The plan is
> for .35 and an SDRAM interface.  This should about double the
> sustained performance level on stack code to about 400 mips.  Perhaps 
> more, it depends on what speed we get in .35 and which speed SDRAM
> is used.

/Tor Silfverberg