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Re: IIGS Acceleration Idea



Bryan Parkoff ha escrito:
>
>     I have to say -- do 1 GHz (GigaHertz) crystal osc chip exist?  If so,
> you will have to redesign Apple //e or Apple IIgs motherboard.  65816 CPU
> will run at 1 GHz.

Bryan,

Is this year the a2's 30th anniversary...?
An a2@1GHz==1000x faster, would be a nice way to celebrate it !!

but...

65816@1GHz... where have you seen it ? The last time I checked wdc they
had 20MHz parts.?
Even if you had the most optimized better available 65816 ip core I
think there's no way to sopc either as no current fpga will eat it
@1GHz.?
And, also, you would need a 2GHz memory bus for a 1GHz cpu clock !! (do
memory dimms this fast exist yet ?) or about 10 or so cpu wait cycles
(for a 100MHz memory bus) and then, it's of little (or no) use to run a
65xx cpu at 10X the memory bus speed... 
:-(