Zorro 3 Bus Speed

[Matt_H]

Buster is a prime candidate for modernized FPGA replacement. I hope Jens Schoenfeld or the Natami guys are working on it.

[Matt_H]

Would it be possible to put a drop-in replacement for buster to

1) fix stupid bugs
2) make it auto-magically faster?

From my non-technical understanding, yes. But Michael Böhmer of E3B would know with more certainty.

[Matt_H]

I think the logic of producing an updated Buster is that all our existing cards would benefit from a speed increase, as would 3000Ts and 4000Ts where there is no replaceable daughterboard.

Of course producing a completely new PCIe bus would provide better performance, but we're probably looking at a whole new machine at that point - and several efforts (NatAmi, other FPGA Amigas, etc.) on that front are already underway.