Rehi... Well, here's some more info (but not much, because it's not finalised)...
The accelerator design has been pondered, perused, and generally looked at, and as of last night we seem to have sorted out all of the mental acrobatics involved in it - now it's just a case of getting it down on paper. After talking to both ARM UK and Zilog, we've been able to come up with a possible way of getting the SAM to work at -- get this -- approximately 20 times its normal speed. And no, it doesn't involve sticking it in a vat of liquid nitrogen. We can't say anything more about how it works for now, but it does use a self-modifying instruction set -- but it ISN'T an emulator. We might also be able to add a few instructions to the instruction set to cope with multiplication and division. Check the date of this posting - I'm not doing an April Fools here. And on another note, thanks to the great god of Gordon the Bruce, it seems that another couple of projects may come out in kit form within the next two or three weeks. 1) The SAMCo Video Digitiser. The contract that Bob Brenchley had which gave him sole rights to produce it has now run out (when he said in format that he didn't know anything about the digitiser etc he was lying), and it will be coming out soon in DIY kit form. 2) The PC-> SAM Keyboard interface. Plug a PC keyboard into your sam!!! Handy if your membrane goes, or anything else nasty like that. *phew* Simon
