[rescue] Sick Dreamcast hacker

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Jun 18 14:51:21 CDT 2002


On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:51:20PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>One question--why FPGA?  A small ARM or MIPS based embedded CPU would seem to
>>be a better fit, but then again, I'm a LISP idiot.
> 
>   The Dallas DS80C390 is a fast 8051-core microcontroller with a fat
> address space and a nice, easily-accessible 32-bit FPU tacked onto the
> side.  It might make an ideal processor for something like this.
> Development tools are easily (and freely) available, and it's cheap.

Something like a TINI in a calculator case?

http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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