> High,
> what is about to think of a communication and support processor. Some
> people mentioned about several serial I/O's a other one would have
> added sound support and we have also to handle a keyboard and
> probably scsi and ethernet.
> Normaly you could handle all from the CPU or get some smarter parts
> which handle more themselve. But one possible solution could be to
> add a common cheap 8 Bit processor like the 6809 and let him work as
> a kind of communication processor.
> Also what I prever is an little bit intelligent video subsystem. It
> shouldn't be much but something like drawing line and Raster Op
> should be possible, to decrease the heavy graphical work load of the
> system.
Hi,
Making the I/O co-processor a requirement could quickly make the
price of the board sky-rocket, if we're not careful. It is nice to
consider these options in the hope that we could find something that
would be cheaper to add. I don't think that a 6809 would fit this
bill. Consider that we could add a R3041 (R300 for real cheap) to
do this for us$15 (plus the glue), but what is the justification?
An idea, one chip that could cover both of the above requests could
be the TI34010 graphics CPU. Last I checked you could get them at
around us$30 (that was a year ago).
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Neil Russell (The wizard from OZ)
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