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86duino OpenHW project with DOS/DJGPP support (Announce)

posted by RayeR Homepage, CZ, 10.10.2013, 22:27

> Intel seems to have just come out with a new line of processors-"Quark".
> It's a SOC with a 32-bit "Pentium ISA" cpu (586, not sure if it has mmx),
> running at 400 MHz (fixed speed), and allegedly at ~ 1/10 the power of an
> Atom; I see 1.9-2.2 W TDP claimed. 512 kilobytes of onboard SRAM--enough
Nice to see another competitor for reasonable price. I missed why they called it Pentium ISA when it doesn't have external ISA bus or does it have different meaning? I'm waiting for vortex datasaheet, then we can compare power consumption. I don't like fixed clock idea. I think it shouldn't be hard to add one MSR and some logic to program CPU multiplier or set some clock modulation to let user decide what computing power actually needs. Well if static consumption is very low it can achieve it by halting...
Then compared to vortex it doesn't provide sound and use some closed source firmware. Also I like the idea of vortex making the computer as addon PCI-E card but it lacks shared memory mapped area for framebuffer - only console IO :(

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