| From: | Harold Grovesteen |
| Date: | 30 Sep 2000 at 15:31:12 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Open Cores |
What do you think the VP translater is? It is nothing more than a code
morpher for a specific CPU. Instead of VP code, Transmeta has x86 code
and translates it (morphs it) for their hardware.
Harold Grovesteen
mef@cs.washington.edu wrote:
>
> 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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