New Hyperion Entertainment Website http://a-eon.com/ - The Mystery Continues

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@hazydave

If I have understood correctly they wish companies start making Xorro boards just like there used to be Zorro cards in 90s... examples include paula emulation, floppy controller and such.

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@hazydave

I'd much rather have seen an FPGA that could be addressed on the PCIe bus, as a standard feature. A decent one could be programmed to accelerate all sorts of things that the CPU may be too anemic to do to a modern par. I don't see how a PEAK of 1600MIPS (all four cores and all eight threads per keeping busy) is a big help, even to a 6000MIPS or so host processor. But if it's doing something significant to handle I/O, then maybe it's a good idea. Again, have to see just what they're doing with it.

There was an FPGA on Acube's SAM board yet nobody found any use for that. Of course the customer base is very small and there are so few with skills for FPGA programming. Not that XMOS makes difference either but it can be programmed in C at least...

@AeroMan

At some point, they stated that it could be used to emulate SID. I believe most of us would expect this chip to be capable of emulating the Amiga chipset, or doing something brand new. (I bet on the last one)
Anyway, the XMOS chip seems very nice, as a microcontroller. I could not resist to show that to the folks at work.

It could be used to emulate SID chip (to replace entire player there isnt enough SRAM) but making such chip which works as good as original SID chip is such achievement that I doubt it...