Re: Build your own Motherboards (was Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??)
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:41:19 +0100 (BST)
> > > You could perhaps have an easier time adding features to make it a 'geek
> > > board': Say two PPC chips (with cache please :) ), a TMS320C6701 DSP
> > > (@167mhz doing single point it gets 1Gflop!), lotsa digital and analog IO
> > > ports... cool stuff like that, I'd spend $700 on it (providing the PPCs
> > > were reasonably fast)..
> >
> > ... and a Xilinx FPGA for I/O ...
> >
>
> Yes, very good. I was thinking a FPGA but I couldn't find any that were
> approiate.
If you plan to make anything buildable by "mere mortals" you probably want
to look at something that is entirely a geek toy and lower speed. One guy
on the linux-arm list has successfully built an ARM based homebrew machine.
Embedded ARM means you can be using 33MHz or slower parts, almost no
glue logic and most I/O devices on chip
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