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David Banks has developed a multi-processor miniture coprocessor based on a Xilinx Spartan FPGA. It implements the following CPUs:

DIP	CPU	Speed	Startup banner	Recommended Client
0	65C102	4MHz	"Acorn TUBE 65C102 Co-Processor"	Client65 v1.12	resources
1	65C102	8MHz	"Acorn TUBE 8MHz 65C102 Co-Pro"
2	65C102	16MHz	"Acorn TUBE 16MHz 65C102 Co-Pro"
3	65C102	32MHz	"Acorn TUBE 32MHz 65C102 Co-Pro"
4	Z80	8MHz	"Acorn TUBE Z80 64K 1.21"	ClientZ80 v1.21	resources
5	Z80	32MHz	"Acorn TUBE Z80 32MHz "
6	Z80	56MHz	"Acorn TUBE Z80 56MHz "
7	Z80	112MHz	"Acorn TUBE Z80 112MHz "
8	80286	16MHz	"Acorn TUBE 80286 768K"	Client86 v1.01	resources
9	6809	4MHz	"6809 TUBE 64K 1.00 "	Client09 v1.06	resources
10	68000	16MHz
11	PDP-11	32MHz	"PDP11 TUBE 64K 0.25 "	Client11 v0.28	resources
12	ARM2	32MHz
13	32016	32MHz
14	SoftPi
15	BIST

The CPU can be selected by setting DIP switches or by using *FX 151,230,n. The changed CPU comes into effect at the next Break, with the CPU set by the DIP switches selected at Power On. The high-speed CoPros overwrite the startup banner with the processor speed. GitHub wiki StarDot discussion

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Authored by J.G.Harston Last update: 01-Nov-2015