| From: | mef |
| Date: | 29 Sep 2000 at 20:03:50 |
| Subject: | RE: AMIOPEN: Open Cores |
With VP it is unimportant what underlying processor hardware Amiga (or
anyone for that matter) would use. The goal would be to always use the
fastest, best, and cheapest processor available. So, I don't see a benefit
for Amiga to throw resources in that direction.
What might be cool is for someone to develop a code-morpher similar to what
Transmeta does for x86, but doing that for VP code. The code can be
optimized like crazy through runtime profiling information. So, an
interesting project for Amiga would be to build something similar to HP's
Dynamo (our friends at ArsTechnica wrote a great review available from
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/dynamo/dynamo-1.html).
Cheers,
Marc
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-open@amiga.com [mailto:owner-open@amiga.com]On Behalf Of
Zoltan Hunt
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 11:01 AM
To: open@amiga.com
Subject: Re: AMIOPEN: Open Cores
This is an interesting one, especially after reading an article on embedded
systems and open source saying that 'open hardware' was unlikely. Still, I
wonder how this will go, I mean right now it costs a lot to get a chip built
even if you have the plans for it, perhaps this will be good for small
companies.
Zoltan
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Martin <tb@amiga.org>
To: open@amiga.com <open@amiga.com>
Date: Friday, September 29, 2000 12:06 PM
Subject: AMIOPEN: Open Cores
>
>If you guys wanna speak about CPUs and Hardware, well...might as well speak
>about Open Hardware then considering where we are. Belive it or not, some
>insain people have actualy designed some free CPUs as well as controlers,
>mother boards etc designed to make cheap machines etc. Do you think that an
>Open Core Amiga would be a good option? A cheap easy made Amiga that we can
>use?
>
>Check it out.
>http://www.opencores.org
>
>Comments please.
>
>--
>Wayne A. Martin - Amiga.org
>E-Mail: tb@amiga.org
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