Jerome <jerome_l_horowitz@yahoo.com> says...>just a follow up... I have nothing against the IBM,Motorola,Intel,AMD >products that I identified... as a matter of fact we use them quite a >bit.. its just that this embedded project requires a non PowerPC or >Pentium (x86) CPU...... hence my difficulty in finding CPU's that rival >them...What is the reasoning behind that constraint? -- Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager for hire. Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like Doc Brown can solve? My resume is at http://www.guymacon.com/
altenative 32 bit processor
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"Jerome" <jerome_l_horowitz@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3f238731.0403160541.2bd7b878@posting.google.com...> Jim Granville <no.spam@designtools.co.nz> wrote in messagenews:<Ukr5c.1556$u%1.241075@news02.tsnz.net>...> > Jerome wrote: > > > looking for 32 bit cpu with MMU, FPU and fairly high > > > throughput benchmark (> 300 MIPS) that is not PowerPC > > > or Pentium based... trying to stay clear of Intel, AMD, > > > Motorola, AMD.... > > > > > > any recommendations/experiences ? > > > > This list does not include TI, Analog Devices, Philips, > > Infineon, NEC, Renesas, MIPS, ARM... so plenty to research... > > MIPS sounds like a good alternative ..... will definetely look into > that... sounds like ARM does not support FPU.... > > just a follow up... I have nothing against the IBM,Motorola,Intel,AMD > products that I identified... as a matter of fact we use them quite a > bit.. its just that this embedded project requires a non PowerPC or > Pentium (x86) CPU...... hence my difficulty in finding CPU's that rival > them... > > still need to look for 2nd choice to MIPS...Amd has a couple of Mips chips http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_6625,00.html http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/TechnicalResources/0,,50_2334_2496_7112,00.html what about a dsp chip ? analog devices, TI Floating point maybe Tiger shark http://www.analog.com/processors/processors/tigersharc/index.html http://www.analog.com/IST/SelectionTableProcessors/?selection_table_id=109 Blackfin http://www.analog.com/processors/processors/blackfin/index.html Ti http://dspvillage.ti.com/docs/dspvillagehome.jhtml?DCMP=TIHomeTracking&HQS=Other+OT+home_p_dsp http://dspvillage.ti.com/docs/allproducttree.jhtml;jsessionid=UEGHAESZLW43LQC1JAVBVQQ Alex
