[sdiy] Tiny FPU chip/16 bit micros?

[Jason Tribbeck]

Hi,

> 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...

It's not a problem with the ARM architecture itself - just the glue vendors
supply around it. I would imagine it's "pretty common with
/microcontroller-style/ ARM processors" :)

The very first commercially available ARM processors (1987 - when I started
to learn to program them) had the capability of 8MHz I/O - and there are
(now) boards available with PCI controllers that use an ARM core as the main
processor...
--
Jason Tribbeck