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Title: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: Oli_hd on October 15, 2002, 01:38:57 PM: Introducing the Superscalar Version 5 ColdFire Core

Joe Circello, Chief ColdFire Architect, Motorola
Motorola proliferates its ColdFire architecture with this introduction of the Version 5 core.
This announcement represents Motorola's leap to a superscalar microarchitecture with a fetch pipeline that feeds dual 5-stage execution pipelines, each including an enhanced multiplyaccumulate unit.

http://www.mdronline.com/mpf/conf.html#day2_8 (http://www.mdronline.com/mpf/conf.html#day2_8)

Fancy a faster classic Amiga?
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: asian1 on October 15, 2002, 02:03:36 PM: >Fancy FASTER Classic Amiga.

Any official information on the specification and availability?
I hope the CPU is available "Off The Shelf" and not just an "IP Core". Without REAL CPU, you have to create the chip itself (min. 100 thousand units).

Without any Floating point unit, the CPU will be SLOWER than 68060 or 68040 with built-in floating point unit, because V5 will use the slow floating point emulator.
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: gnarly on October 15, 2002, 03:12:43 PM: Quote
Fancy a faster classic Amiga?

Well, yes actually. Hows the coldfire project coming along then? :-)
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: Oli_hd on October 15, 2002, 03:40:32 PM: Hi,

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Hows the coldfire project coming along then?

Well what sould be a fully functional prototype will be printed in just over a week (I have to get a software update before the design can be printed)
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: jdiffend on October 15, 2002, 03:55:49 PM: The V5 core was supposed to have everything the 4e had in a superscalar package. That means MMU, FPU (though stripped down from 060 standards) and some sort of multi-cpu core support. Basicly a 4e with multiple pipelines and whatever else they had time to fit in.

Until the press releases tomorrow and documentation we won't know for sure what is in it.
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: Elektro on October 15, 2002, 07:06:52 PM: ATM i'd bet on that IBM new ppc.
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: KennyR on October 15, 2002, 07:28:58 PM: Quote
Fancy a faster classic Amiga?

Not really. I want a new generation Amiga. I don't want to keep adding CPU power to the pile of old and bottlenecked hardware I have. It would be better to start afresh with a nice new motherboard with no bottlenecks, and AGP, UDMA and PCI built in, don't you think?
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: Ruud on October 15, 2002, 11:21:17 PM: KennyR - Yep, can't argue with that! :-)
Coldfire is all well and good but I think that PPC is where the future lies.
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: Kermito on October 16, 2002, 12:00:51 AM: Quote
Fancy a faster classic Amiga?

Yeah! why not? :-)
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: jdiffend on October 16, 2002, 04:57:48 PM: Here is the press release:

http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,1958,1895_1555_23,00.html

It states that a V5 core at 333MHz should be twice as fast as a 5407 at 220MHz.
Title: Re: Motorola ready to launch new "V5" Coldfire!!
Post by: jdiffend on October 16, 2002, 05:04:01 PM: Quote
Without any Floating point unit, the CPU will be SLOWER than 68060 or 68040 with built-in floating point unit, because V5 will use the slow floating point emulator.

The V5 has optional FPU and MMU. Didn't see any announcment about standard parts though.