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Jim

# 41
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28

From: Delaware, USA

Quote:

Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> The primary reason I've mentioned the 1.33 GHz CPU is that it's still available

...as are 1.42, 1.6 and 1.7 GHz ones:

https://www.rocelec.com/part/FREFREMC7447AHX1420LB
https://www.rocelec.com/part/NXPFREMC7448VU1600LD
https://www.rocelec.com/part/NXPFREMC7448VU1700LD
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/mc7448vu1700ld/nxp-semiconductors
https://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/NXP-Freescale/MC7448HX1700LD?qs=%2Fha2pyFaduhE9Nfwsy6ij6rTF5HFgDV0kLLfe4p6HpYy74DI%2FPAkHQ%3D%3D

Question is why anyone would use an old e600-based CPU instead of a newer, faster and cheaper e6500-based CPU for newly created accelerators.

> and would be the easiest to adapt to that design.

To which design? Besides, it should be easier to adapt a board design to the CPU than the other way round

From a design standpoint, I don't think an e6500 or e5500 cored CPU would be easier to implement.
The e600 cored cpus are much more similar to the cpus used on older PCI boards like those we have been discussing.
And the software would be the same. No need for separate development.

But, again, I'd still favor something that wasn't plugged into 25+ year old technology.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
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