Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject	Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays
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Date	2011-04-12 00:06 -0700
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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> They may not have provided you with CPUs with 8x the memory, but they
> did provide the option of shutting off one node to allow an adjacent
> node to use the RAM giving that node double the amount.  I am pretty
> sure I read that somewhere.

As I understand, you can use the adjacent nodes' ram as (essentially)
I/O devices, so it's slower than using local ram, and uses some of your
code space. 

> I'm pretty convinced these parts have a lot of applications if I can
> understand how to properly use them.  So I'll be interested in
> reviewing the docs they come out with.

It does seem cool to get so much computing speed, at so small power
consumption and low cost.  But I spent a while trying to think of
applications, and almost everything I could want to do turns out to not
really be workable.  Most everything I do wants 8-bit bytes and 32-bit
arithmetic, or else wants gobs of ram, or else wants fast DSP blocks
or floating point arithmetic, etc.

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  Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@GreenArrayChips.com> - 2011-04-09 17:53 -0700
    Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-10 14:53 -0700
      Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@greenarraychips.com> - 2011-04-11 10:18 -0700
  Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2011-04-11 14:44 -0700
    Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2011-04-11 17:11 -0700
      Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-11 21:41 -0700
        Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-12 00:06 -0700
          Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-12 06:22 -0700
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                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 10:32 -0700
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