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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : New 121-core processor for the CMM2... ;)
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Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9030 |
This is rather interesting for an older CPU. Perhaps Peter can port the CMM2 to it. Dave certainly seems to like it! New CPU for the CMM2!!! ;) 63-layer module, 400 meters of interconnecting wire, 76,000 vias, 121 cores and could access up to 9GB of RAM - in 1991..... If they could do this in the early 90's, it makes you wonder what they are cooking up in the labs these days. Skynet is coming! Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2861 |
Grogster, Peter will get it going if you buy a few samples for him.. M Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9030 |
LOL! Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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bigfix Senior Member Joined: 20/02/2014 Location: AustriaPosts: 124 |
The challenge would be the plumbing for the watercooling... DEC played with waferscale ECL in the 80s - no Hybrid, just plain Silicon I think the needed about a Kilowatt per wafer - and never really worked Trilogy Failure Talking about small micros today: Dazzler I guess this has more cores in the GPU for 40 USD Only for the Arduino world - no Mitesupport so far... Edited 2020-10-24 21:18 by bigfix |
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matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8517 |
Way back when I was involved in a project for GCHQ in the UK. The H/W we were building used ECL for a framebuffer (way before PC graphics cards). The power supply for the system was 300amp 5V |
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Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
That module was built in the East Fishkill facility which is about 4.7 miles from my current house. LINK J. W. Knickerbocker used to own a house 300 feet east of my current house. The East Fishkill facility was spun off by IBM to Global Foundries about 2007 and will soon transition to ON Semiconductors. It now contains one of the world's 300 mm fabs producing 14,000 wafers per month. Search for "Fishkill" at LIST OF FABS Those IBM guys sure were ahead of their time back 30 years ago! Paul in NY Edited 2020-10-25 07:01 by Paul_L |
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RetroJoe Senior Member Joined: 06/08/2020 Location: CanadaPosts: 290 |
That thing is insane - like something they have hidden away in Area 51 :) And, when the guy started pushing the caps around in the mineral oil, I thought I was watching a Ridley Scott movie! Edited 2020-10-25 08:08 by RetroJoe Enjoy Every Sandwich / Joe P. |
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hitsware2 Guru Joined: 03/08/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 705 |
Neato ! I ' ve been looking for a ' developement board ' with HDMI .... my site |
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bigfix Senior Member Joined: 20/02/2014 Location: AustriaPosts: 124 |
I had a closer look at Dazzler Looks actually quite interesting: GPU: BT815 1.1 gigapixel/s embedded GPU with 8 Mbyte flash FPGA: Xilinx Spartan-6 LX9 FT256 with 8 Mbyte flash Video output: HDMI 24-bit at 1280x720 (720p) with 48 KHz stereo audio Storage: microSD slot Extra input: two Wii Classic controller ports Form-factor: Gameduino 3X Dazzler is an Arduino-compatible shield The shield includes the Dazzler Core, which is an SMD module that includes GPU, FPGA, and HDMI Hardware interfaces: Standard SPI up to 36 MHz for Arduino communication UART up to 1 Mbps for FPGA connection JTAG for FPGA reloading All inputs are 5 V tolerant Programming: Gameduino library for Arduino and CircuitPython. Dozens of examples. Terminal mode: functions as an ANSI terminal with high-speed UART Current consumption (typical): 180 mA Dimensions: 83 mm x 53 mm x 20 mm So in theory you just hook it up to any Mite on SPI and the serial consoleport I do not find any details - but the Console should see a plain ANSI VT100 ?? Then you need "only" some magic code to drive the GPU over SPI - this is the hard part... But overall this looks like an affordable external HDMI Graphic subsystem All open source static Code - no dynamic/moving-target OS like in the Raspberry |
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hitsware2 Guru Joined: 03/08/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 705 |
Hopefully ( for my purposes ) , It will act like a glorified Pi Board .... Shows up as a USB drive .... ( on R Pi ) When you save the main.py file , it runs . my site |
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retepsnikrep Senior Member Joined: 31/12/2007 Location: United KingdomPosts: 131 |
I winced when he mashed up one of the chips with his pliers.. :( Should have cleaned it all and mounted it in a nice frame on the wall. I use a huge old expensive faulty IGBT module as a dead as a doorstop in my workroom. Gen1 Honda Insights. |
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