> >Another option: the eZ80!!!
> >As Peter Burkhard just told me it's fully Z180 compatible and has speeds
up
> >to 80 MHz!!!
> >Sounds nice...
> >And it's new, so it will probably be available for awhile.
>
> The only problem is: it's hard to develop a hardware for a
non-existing-yet
> processor. Also, it'll probably be sold as VHDL code, to be writen on a
PLD...
> this have one good and one bad thing. The good thing is that Zilog had
> said that we, if buy the VDHL code, may change the eZ80 behaviour freely,
> changing the VHDL code. The bad thing is: they only sold very large
amounts
> of licenses (something like 5000 licenses) of the VHDL code. So, someone
> with lots of money will have to buy these licenses to produce a few MSX
> computers using eZ80. This is the bad site.
Hmmm... shit.
Shit shit shit...
Sure nobody could convince ZiLOG to sell smaller quantities of licenses???
I mean, then the remap of the instructions could be hardcoded in the
processor!!!
<sigh>...
> BTW, eZ80 has some interesting features, and could be used, maybe, in
> a ACE003, if this prove to be a real good thing...
Yes. I believe the 'extended adress range' is more than the 1MB of the Z180.
> For now, we will stay
> with Z180 or Z380... the one that give us the better performance.
Yup...
~Grauw
Btw, I hope Ademir and Leonardo Padial be told of all those things
discussed... And I hope they will start to co-operate... I think having two
projects, although ofcourse very nice seeing that much productivity, won't
be good for either of them.
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