Re: Target market for Intellasys.

On May 24, 2:26 pm, Wayne <news_putmynamehere...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Fri, 23 May 2008 06:58:43 +1000, Wayne  
Looking through serial memory I found something like a maximum  
of 70mhz speed which is pretty useless if it was the only bus in a cutting  
edge design.

Winbond's 25Q 8-pin serial flash parts can shift out data at 320M bps
using quad-data-rate mode at 80MHz. The cool thing is that they are
backward compatible with industry standard serial flash chips. I
suspect other serial flash vendors will eventually offer parts with
high speed modes, because even serially, code can be executed in place
faster than using parallel flash.

I think you need to get your hands on a Xilinx or Altera evaluation
board and start designing your own hardware as a way to address all of
these ideas in your head.

As for Intellasys, the most important thing may be the patents it
spawns. Chuck tends to be way ahead of his time, so ten years from now
when the big companies are doing sea-of-processors, the lawyers will
once again start pulling rabbits out of their hats.

Brad
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