Minimig v1.1 ARM Hardfile Demonstration

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what are the specs of the ARM used? How much connectivity does it have to the FPGA? Could one also run a 68000 emulator on it? :idea:

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boing4000 wrote:
This ARM module is just a PIC replacement. The ARM cpu has more power and room for bigger firmware and HDF support. Jakub made his own experimental board afaik. NO 68k simmulation can run on it, the PIC socket only provide a simple SPI bus to the FPGA.
Compatibility: 100% - depending on programming.

Even the cheapest ARM available is much much more powerful than the most powerful 68k ever made. If a more powerful ARM were used, one could run a 68020 emu to replace the 68000... That is a more elegant solution :-)  

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Firstly, the TG68 is a hardware map for an FPGA emulation of the 68000... That's not what I want at all.

There are plenty of 68k emulator for the ARM, I used to use PocketUAE on my old PDA... I'm pretty sure there is an ST emu that has a JIT too...

My goal is threefold:

1) I want to get rid of the real 68k (the only chip we have no control over).
2) I want to have 020 compatibility.
3) I want to reduce the component count.

My point is that the current ARM used might only be a microcontroler, but updating that chip to a more powerful chip could allow it to do its current job and 680x0 emulation too, and with only a small cost increase (if you include the loss of the 68k)...   There was no chance of doing that with the old PIC that was there before.