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Offline AeroMan

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Re: OK... why no new 68K boards?
« on: February 09, 2009, 11:01:22 PM »
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and new FPGAs come out, speed will increase, and someone will add 020 instructions, and the fact that they cost more doesn't change the fact that they are being produced.

You're not going to make anything close to a 100MHz MC68060 with an FPGA for a LONG time.


I hate to be pessimistic, but bigger FPGAs will probably be all in BGA package, and soldering these beauties is not something easy to do in our backyard
Besides this, they also recquire a multi layer PCB (8 to 10 layers, maybe more) which are expensive and hard to do

In the good hand, I´ve heard some good news from some friends about Freescale.(hehehe) Let´s wait for the future :-D
 

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Re: OK... why no new 68K boards?
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2009, 04:29:26 PM »
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I´ve heard some good news from some friends about Freescale

If you have not signed a NDA then spill the beans already, it is not like we haven't been waiting for years to learn what exactly the new v5 coldfire will offer.


Sorry, I´m not allowed to do that, unfortunately...  :-(