a golden age of Amiga

[actung_bab]

Dear Friends:

I believe if we all work hard dedicated, we can bring about a new
golden age of amiga.
Let's do it !!!

Rednova

Well almost seems that way doesint it i have to agree alot to be thankfull for
I think if you got new hardware your got the Second golden age Maybe when
PPC cards and then A! one hardware so Know, we got 3rd Golden age
Depending how you look at things i guess but for me its great even if i havent got,
The hardware in front of me i got the oppunity to buy it if i wish to make it my first priorty
As my first hobby which it isint for last 6 years its been hifi gear dvds and know motorcycles A 1992 VFR 750 honda (rc36)

For me i run the bbs athough getting no callers at present hehe
But that makes the old 1200 enjoyable to turn on and love fiddling with it

Given i get the  time with family commitments

But we got remember alot people work on amiga software where always
gifted people did it for the love of it not getting pid a fortune (sharware)

These days seems its mostley about making money ie iphone apps etc

I think catch 22 thing , and not the devolpers fault or anyones
WE got the hardware but need to have people buying more software
To encourage growth in the market but its never going be like in the 80s
The world moved on and its not sad its just life
Those days everthing was new and excitng today little that brand new just reinventing the wheel .
So No not in the way you hoped for but am not going rain on your parade

Dude if you wish for that and its in your heart go for it buddy

keep posting no harm in talking about ideas can catch on and what made steve jobs person he was
Even was bit of a Hard man to his people though

Ps when laptop gets on the market i will be buying that as it be afforadable for me even with amiga
At number 3 On priority list

[actung_bab]

nice franko can do these also

[actung_bab]

Thank you for your ideas Mrs Beanbag.

With regards to FPGAs, you are correct that currently they are often used for rapid prototyping. However, they are occassionally used in commercial products, and again I must stress that memristors bring a number of advantages to typical FPGAs that will allow the performance to get much closer to fixed function devices. Allow me to explain...

The simple explanation for current FPGAs is that they are organised into code blocks called logic elements. You can see a diagram of one here:
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~pc/research/fpga/des/Logic_Element/logic_element.html

Through configuring these logic elements you change the function of FPGAs to fit your needs. However, the architecture is sub-optimal compared to ASICs as the extra bulk required to manage the re-programmability limits their logic density (in other words, ASICs allow circuitry to be simplified).

However, using memristors in FPGAs has the potential to make FPGAs a lot more efficient. There are a few ways to build FPGAs using memristors, but let's first focus on the first way described in the video I shared. The simple way to think about this is that you have two layers in the chip; on one layer you have transistors, on the other layer you have memristors. Memristors act as the wiring between the transistors. They are ideally suited to this. Memristors are electrically controlled variable resisitors that remember their resistance. Increase the resistance high enough and you have a 'blocked' connection. Reduce the resistance and you have an 'open' connection. The circuitry to manage the memristor wiring would be minimal, and the simpler connections would allow more efficient designs to be implemented on FPGAs.

As suggested, this is just one way to implement FPGAs utilising memristors. The other way hinted at in the video was to use implication logic. What has been discovered is that memristors can do logic by themselves, you don't need transistors at all, but you need to use a different form of logic. My knowledge on implication logic is sketchy at the moment, but from what was suggested in the video, the preliminary work done at HP on this indicates that when compiling C code, you end up with smaller binaries using implication logic. It's an area I need to research more, but I should learn to walk before I can run! ;-)

Use of RAM for reconfigurable computers is an interesting idea, but I'm not quite sure how it would work. Could you explain more?



Yes, I intended the CPU to be programmable in the way you suggest. When you say we could go further than an FPGA design here, what do you have in mind?

a understand what your saying on very basic level what is diffrence between fpg
 the simple pic control chips i seen my friend program i know these have very limited storage but seems you can do alot with less , which what your saying .
apart from elagance of working with this whats the practice benifets of this
lower power use.
and chould you use the advanced c who is this diffrent ot a fpg i kinda dont understand what fpg is i know its a progamed aray how does it diffrent from a cpu ?
its been itresting read keep it up

I rememby freind who was into computers before amiga came out he had amstrad 128
talking about cpus and how many bits make up a byte it stayed with me all this time
Some pople just make this stuff great to learn about , kevin cameron guy on engine design in the same vein , makes complicated eem simple enough for you to want learn more and more