V-Dragon, Transmeta, 68K

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asian1 wrote:
Hi
Culturecom had released low cost V-Dragon CPU designed by Transmeta and manufactured by IBM.
The core is 32 Bit RISC, 16 Kb cache, with intergrated Chinese language processor.
Is it possible to design similar chips with support for 68K/CF instruction set?

V-Dragon

Transmeta official reply on PowerPC Instruction set: Impossible!
(aka secret non competitor agreement)

When I asked Transmeta about PPC and 68k support, they said nothing about the PPC but said that 68k was totally possible, it would just take some one towrite the microcode. It would even be possible to have 68k and x86 running at the saem time!!! :-o

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shIva wrote:

When I asked Transmeta about PPC and 68k support, they said nothing about the PPC but said that 68k was totally possible, it would just take some one towrite the microcode. It would even be possible to have 68k and x86 running at the same time!!!

when you contacted them, did they just talk about the possibilities, or eventually of planning to do sth. like m68k microcode ?! :-)
btw : ppc is (imho) not possible, because of the totally different technical specs.

Thay said 68k was possible. But there's no incentive to make one. I spoke to an Engineer, and he explained in detail how it could work. Unless you buy the right to the CPU's microcode, no one is going to make a 68K one.

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>Right to 68K Microcode.
Do Transmeta got X86 Microcode from IBM or Intel?
Is it against the law to create 68K emulation?

you need the rights to the Crusoe microcode so that YOU can make the 68k emulator. Since no one else is going to do it.