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Offline KimmoK

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Re: A project I'd like to see from Jens...
« on: June 23, 2014, 08:59:55 AM »
Quote from: donpalmera;767379
...think outside of the box enough to realise that an ARM SoC many times more power than the fastest m68k Amiga could just emulate the whole thing


Rasberry Pi can only emulate basic A500 because pi operates at the speed of 200...300Mhz Pentium PC.


Other than that...
>I think it would be really cool to create a bridgeboard that plugs into the raspberry PI...

Absolutely futile.
But there are already implementations where RPi simulates A500 FDD or ethernet card.
A lot of stuff can be done with simple RPi-A500 adaptation. No Jens needed, just DIY soldering + load of SW work.

>Maybe even emulate a powerpc chip.

RPi should be able to emulate PowerPC @ 20Mhz speed or so.

For ARM deviced, AEROS or ARIX for 1.7Ghz ODROID might be damn usefull.


For Jens to do:
-FPGA card (PCIe client) to do AGA+more emulation
-FPGA card (PCIe host) to do 68k+more emulation
-Passive backplane to house those two and perhaps to provide a few more PCIe slots
-parts to built that into ATX or DTX case
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Re: A project I'd like to see from Jens...
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2014, 08:05:36 AM »
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Those specs put PowerPC to shame. :(


? BCM53003: 600 MHz (1200 DMIPS) ?

To me it seems similar to PPC440 in performance.

A few years back multicore MIPS chips were a little behind PPC in some performance issues like in memory handling latencies. And they were hot @1ghz.

IMO: Best thing about MIPS (&Cavium chips) is that it has made Freescale to do something after so many years of too little progress. It looked that Freescale is not going to fight back, but now the fight is on. To my understanding MIPS crowth has slowed down since.
(within one year ARM starts to shake Telecoms market, therefore we see new chips sooner also from Cavium (ThunderX) & Freescale (AMP and NGcore))
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Re: A project I'd like to see from Jens...
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2014, 08:27:58 AM »
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Its hard to estimate how many people are still around.
Would be good to know how big the market really is today.
Producing 100 or 2000 boards would make a difference in the price.


How about crowd funding?
Kickstarter as an example would be interesting for organizing order of some 2000 boards?
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Re: A project I'd like to see from Jens...
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2014, 09:32:47 AM »
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OK lets be very honest, ok? .... we want ourselves ....


Be aware, if the crowd likes it, and you (for some reason) deside to keep it (only) to/for yourselves, Amiga-Gaida will get you. ;-)
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