well...it's fun to learn how to design a microcontroller and peripherals...

Though it may not be so useful, but will my 8bit PIC become useful if
I expand the data/address bus to 32-bit?

Will it become useful if I design make the program address to 20-bits...
thus make it run 1MB programs? What will MPLAB do when the C program
is longer than 2048Bytes?

Best Regards,
Kelvin







Kelvin @ SG <kelvin8157@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, there:
>
> I am doing some exercise with a PIC15C57 core on FPGA. Now I am adding a
> multiplier to
> address 7C~7F...Basically in assembly I will write two variables to 7C &
7D,
> then fetch the
> result from 7E & 7F...Similar idea to a divider...Will such a crazy idea
> find application in the
> real world? Plus...I can add stuff like UART, DDS, etc...
>
> Kelvin
>
>
>
>

Kelvin @ SG <kelvin8157@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, there:
>
> I am doing some exercise with a PIC15C57 core on FPGA. Now I am adding a
> multiplier to
> address 7C~7F...Basically in assembly I will write two variables to 7C &
7D,
> then fetch the
> result from 7E & 7F...Similar idea to a divider...Will such a crazy idea
> find application in the
> real world? Plus...I can add stuff like UART, DDS, etc...
>
> Kelvin

The registers at 70 to 7F are a valuable resource on many 14 bit PICs. They
provide an area of RAM that is bank independent. If you intend to entend
your 57 to have multiple RAM banks you may want to put your multiplier ports
somewhere else.

Regards
Sergio Masci

http://www.xcprod.com/titan/XCSB - optimising structured PIC BASIC compiler

Kelvin @ SG schrieb:
> 
> I am doing some exercise with a PIC15C57 core on FPGA. Now I am adding a
> multiplier to
> address 7C~7F...Basically in assembly I will write two variables to 7C & 7D,
> then fetch the
> result from 7E & 7F...Similar idea to a divider...Will such a crazy idea
> find application in the
> real world? Plus...I can add stuff like UART, DDS, etc...
> 
Hello,

if I would need a hardware multiplier and divider on a processor, I 
would select a processor with this feature.
But DDS on a FPGA may be useful, if the commercially available DDS chips 
would not fit for the application.

Bye

>
>I am doing some exercise with a PIC15C57 core on FPGA. Now I am adding a
>multiplier to
>address 7C~7F...Basically in assembly I will write two variables to 7C & 7D,
>then fetch the
>result from 7E & 7F...Similar idea to a divider...Will such a crazy idea
>find application in the
>real world? Plus...I can add stuff like UART, DDS, etc...

Highly unlikely, to make some thing like this successful it needs to be unique
or faster or cheaper.

Hi, there:

I am doing some exercise with a PIC15C57 core on FPGA. Now I am adding a
multiplier to
address 7C~7F...Basically in assembly I will write two variables to 7C & 7D,
then fetch the
result from 7E & 7F...Similar idea to a divider...Will such a crazy idea
find application in the
real world? Plus...I can add stuff like UART, DDS, etc...

Kelvin