Hey Travis, >> Not great, so any suggestions for whats better? >> > Everyone uses them because they're easy and just work. Sometimes > you may need to tweak the setup eeprom, but in general they just work. > We use a pericom 7300 (can't remember and working from home > today), that is quite nice. Not an issue with it at all. HW > guy just plunked it down and it worked. They have an eval board to.
I was going to take a look around TIs site, I'd forgotten Pericom makes bridges too, I'll read the data book. > ... I've not had a need to use it, my work is 90% PCI > (forwarding engine, queueing engine, etc) for 10G ethernet, so > FPU stuff is very rare, and not time critical (used for setting > up policing/rate limiting etc). Basically, set it and forget it > calculations. I figured that was probably the case - and the reason the majority of the embedded processors are sans-FPU. I didn't want to use a TI DSP again, there's just no 'community spirit' like with Linux. So, I'll take a look at the PowerQUICC that Wolfgang mentioned, and see if I want to change to that processor, another look at the ColdFire (I have an MCF5485 eval board), and a look at the bridge data sheets and see where that leaves me. Personally, I want to stay with the PowerPC, the developer mailing list is great! Thanks, Dave
