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Re: [Amigacoldfire] Re: [offtopic] X-Calibur like memory board

> I don't know if you have compared a 040 and a 060 chip but 060 has
> some extra rows of pins. In addition to that, it's not as easy to
> adapt a 040 board to use a 060, otherwise people would be using
> WarpEngines with 060 chips and would get much better memory speeds
> than using phase5 boards

Aren't the CyberStorms all 64bit? I'd think these would have faster
memory than WarpEngines. The CyberStorms are faster than the 32bit
Blizzards.

Jaeson

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Hi! As Oliver talked about a coldfire design that plugged into a 030 socket I wonder if it would be very complex to create a board similar to the old X-Calibur...	Jaime Cagigal jaime_cagigal	Dec 7, 2007 11:02 am
Hi ... Could it be done, yeah. Xilinx give the code away for Dram and SDRam controllers for use with their CPLD's, but honestly it aint worth it imho. (unless...	Oliver Day Oli_HD	Dec 7, 2007 3:23 pm
Coincidental that this obscure topic should come up! I happen to have an X-Calibur board. The other day I was reading the readme file on the driver disk that...	David stopthegop	Jan 22, 2008 10:55 am
Very coincidental that this obscure topic should come up! I happen to have an X-Calibur board. The other day I was reading the readme file on the driver disk...	David stopthegop	Jan 9, 2008 2:51 pm
Give it a try and let everyone know how it works out. Maybe the voltage supplied to the processor comes directly from the host board? It would be interesting...	Jaeson Koszarsky jaesonk	Jan 22, 2008 10:54 am
... It won't work with 060. AFAIK X-Calibur is designed for 5v and not 3.3v ... In case it would work, I have doubts Draco m68k drivers work. -- Saludos/Best...	Jaime Cagigal jaime_cagigal	Feb 5, 2008 10:50 am
... It depends on where x-calibur maps the 128MB. The PPC probably won't be able to address the additional memory. ... I don't know if you have compared a 040...	Jaime Cagigal jaime_cagigal	Jan 22, 2008 10:54 am
... Aren't the CyberStorms all 64bit? I'd think these would have faster memory than WarpEngines. The CyberStorms are faster than the 32bit Blizzards. Jaeson ...	Jaeson Koszarsky jaesonk	Feb 5, 2008 10:50 am
... phase5 boards have the slowest memory access. CyberstormMK3/PPC is the only phase5 board with 64bit access to memory, but WarpEngines, GVP G-Force and ...	Jaime Cagigal jaime_cagigal	Feb 9, 2008 11:39 am

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