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Technical aspects of the f21


David Cousins writes:
 
 > total of about 128k. The DRAM should be very very wide (1000's of bits wide)
 > to provide the data rate for the chips (similar to Sony's Emotion Engine at
 > 2560 bits). Additionally, have access to external RAM, either through the
 > f21's normal address range, or a DMAC that shuttles data to and from the 64k
 > pool.

Instruction slot type stuff doesn't scale to ultra wide buses, I'd
recommend something like
	  http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui22204/.html/txt/8uliw.txt 

It's all moot, since no one of us has resources to prototype stuff
like this anyway. (20 M$ a single prototype batch, right?)