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Re: [xl7] FPGA & ASIC [Re: Open source the OS]

2003-01-25 by ->Nobody<-

Speaking of which... What's the purpose of the FPGA? I/O? UART? Audio?
As far as I understand (I'm no tech-head by far and my maths, you and 
I don't want to hear about :), it's reconfigurable on the fly depending 
on what it's used for. But I thought the Coldfire would handle quite a 
lot of things in there.

And, honestly, software or hardware wise, is there some kind of 
Ensoniq's ASR-X legacy at all in the XX-7?

Aaron Eppolito wrote:
> We made all of the ASICs.  There is the occasional other chip on 
> there like the control CPU (motorola) and the Xilinx FPGA (but of 
> course, you have to program those!), but all of the 7 ASICs on there 
> are ours.
-- 
Sebastien,
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I used to be schizophrenic, but we're all right now.

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