Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2795 from 2006/3/21
From: Northern Calif...
Since the MC68060FE133 is a surface mounted part, and not a socketed part, it makes testing multiple parts much more difficult and I wonder if more than one Natami CPU daughtercard was assembled? With the 060 daughtercard being aimed at developers for debugging, testing and development, the need for the MMU on this daughtercard is more critical than the consumer versions of the Natami, which are not going to have working MMU's (and probably not an FPU either) within the softcore N68050 that they are creating. So, if the Natami team believes that all of their MC68060FE133 chips do not have an MMU & FPU, they may not use any more of them for the developer daughtercards.
Being surface mounted parts would also discourage most hobbyist from using these chips in their projects, when alternative socketed 68060 chips are still available to purchase for their designs.
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