In message <[email protected]>, Scott Newell writes: >At 08:50 AM 2/19/2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>I've had similar (like maybe a Luminary ARM + ethernet) thoughts. I >wasn't sure if the firmware was simple enough to be re-written so >that the entire CPU section could be replaced. I have far from made any plans, it's only "If I landed on a desert island with only my entire lab and plenty of time" kind of musings :-) I guess it depends on the spirit of the project how you would do it, from adding an ekstra EPROM and using the M6800 to add a bit of steampunk features or to replacing the entire CPU board and modernize the instrument. The firmware is pretty approachable, it is only 8KB code and I am pretty sure a cortex3 could emulate it in real time if it came to that. Since the image is static, it would be trivial to write a m6800->C converter and compile the image for any CPU you cared for. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
