Re: GA144 Application Board

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: GA144 Application Board
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Date	2012-03-25 13:06 -0700
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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> We'll find out what works well for a GPS app.  I can't imagine that a
> 700 MIPS processor with 100+ MHz DRAM can't run as fast as the 25 MHz
> ARM7 in my current GPS reciever, although it is clearly speed limited
> when viewing moving maps in the tiny display. 

The GA's internal 64-word SRAM runs at around 100 mhz or a little
faster.  If the GA application note is any indication, external ram will
be an order of magnitude slower.  Note that the GA already has a 3-node
external SRAM controller, i.e. special purpose ROM code in those 3
nodes, so it's probably easiest to just use that, along with the circuit
and chip that they recommend.  That gives 256k 16-bit words of external
SRAM, I think.  It's conveniently set up for access through eforth
running in a VM that's in the ROM of some adjacent nodes.

> I would like to have a larger display, maybe 5 inches and with e-Ink
> technology (I assume it can support a 1 second update rate).  I saw a
> Kindle and was VERY impressed with the clarity and contrast of the
> display not to mention the low power aspects of it.

For GPS, color probably makes it a lot nicer.  On the cpu side, it's
probably a lot easier to write the map handling code in a scripting
language with lists, garbage collection, etc.  That's part of the
purpose of a separate cpu for the map stuff.

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