Am Samstag, den 28.05.2005, 12:49 -0400 schrieb Timothy Miller:

> > Now for the math.  Timothy said to expect a 20 clock delay for random
> > access to card memory.  I'm going to assume that is 20 clocks in the
> > 200Mhz domain.  
> 
> No.  I'm assuming a large part of that delay comes from synchronizing
> FIFOs between clock domains.

Why does the VGA controller have to run at a different clock rate than
the memory controller?

> Furthermore, I'm assuming a row miss in
> the memory controller, and numberous other delays.

Can the VGA controller get a more direct access to the cache and/or
VRAM? Direct enough to be able to predict when the results of a read
arrive?


- Viktor Pracht

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