Look what else the new year has brought us...(NATAMI)

[SamuraiCrow]

The Robin core of the Natami chipset should be able to do the same stuff as the Xena chip but if you're going to make a custom board anyway, then why not throw on a $5.60 XCore chip anyway?  It wouldn't cost that much.

[SamuraiCrow]

The toolchain is LLVM.  Getting a multithreaded emulator to run shouldn't be a problem.  Maybe we'll have to ditch UAE though since it's a single-threaded emulator.

But as I said before, the Natami already is planned to have the Robin core which is probably the same technique used internally as the XCore system.

[SamuraiCrow]

Not at all. Natami uses an FPGA which is more or less an electrically reconfigurable custom chip. You write a description of the hardware you want in a language like VHDL or Verilog and the FPGA gets configured to act like a chip designed to your description.

The Robin core is designed in VHDL.  The FPGA programming on the Natami is not dynamically generated, but the design for multiple cores being placed in it.  They have about 4 cores planned to be implemented in the FPGA.  1) SuperAGA, 2) 68050, 3) Tami the texture mapper, and 4) the Robin DSP core.