[sdiy] Tiny FPU chip/16 bit micros?

[Jason Tribbeck]

Hi,

> > funny, thats not what the Philips guy said :-)
> 
> Exactly, and that was what pissed me whit the 3,4mhz i/o,many 
> LPC users had exactly the same baad feeling that Philips had 
> done a crap work on the glue!
> 
> I recall that the Philips app guy blamed pipe stalls as a 
> source wich i dont belive, since the pipe is 3 stages long 
> and even a flush and reload of instructions are quicker then 
> the resulting 3,4Mhz io speed! naaa , this is very baad gluee 
> enginering from Philips!.... simply! 

When I saw Paul's reply, words failed me - "Backside" and "speaking out of"
was my opinion of the Philips guy.

It /could/ be a side effect of the AMBA bus (I haven't looked into it), but
limiting I/O to 3.4Mhz would be one heck of a mistake.

If ALL ARM devices had this problem then the StrongARM/PXA devices wouldn't
have been chosen for most modern PDAs, and my home computer wouldn't cope
with my 100baseT network (it probably wouldn't be able to cope with USB 1.1
either).
--
Jason Tribbeck