Date   : Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:48:19 +0200
From   : kortink@... (John Kortink)
Subject: Faster, faster

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:15:19 +0100, Michael Firth <mfirth@...>
wrote:

>[...]
>
>One question, which your mail today suggests you may
>already be thinking about, is whether this is intended
>only as a replacement for the external 6502 second
>processor, or whether you are planning on a version
>that can fit inside a Master as a Turbo-turbo co-pro?

The former. Although a Master version is easy to do
by adapting the PCB, I decided against doing it now
since the scope of this project is intentionally
narrow. Perhaps later when I feel like it, and a
ULA-in-FPGA is available as a standalone plugin (I
might make one myself, but, as for all the other
things that can be thought up, not now).

>I guess this could either be done by two PCB flavours,
>or (as I think Sprow has done with the ARM7 board)
>making one PCB that can be connected up either way.
>
>One big advantage of an internal unit, for those of us
>that don't already have an external 2nd processor, is
>that the PSU etc is already taken care of, and it would
>just be the challenge of sourcing a ULA chip.

Or a ULA and a PSU (with a box around it) ...

Possibly the ULA could be eliminated altogether as
well. But there we go again with all the ideas ...


John Kortink

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