[sdiy] Tiny FPU chip/16 bit micros?

James Patchell patchell at cox.net
Fri Feb 4 02:02:26 CET 2005


Ok, that is one problem I know about...it seems to be pretty common with 
ARM processors...the ATMEL Arm THumb I use (at work) has a similar 
problem...I got around it by using the external address/data bus going into 
a CPLD...

At 12:45 PM 2/3/2005 +0000, Paul Maddox wrote:
>James,
>
>
> > Now you got me curious...
> >
> > The LPC2106 is one of the ARMs I am considering using...are there some
> > problems with the part?
>
>just one, despite the ARM core being able to run at 60MHz, the io will
>*ONLY* run at 3.4Mhz...
>seems like a major problem, at least for me, I wanted 8Mhz IO, not much to
>ask of a CPU running at 60!
>
>Paul

         -Jim
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