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In article <7xk4f0ymmp.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin  <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>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.

You've been looking at programs. Then I can understand that conclusion.

I've been looking in Elektor, an electronics magazine.
About half of the designs published would be better off on the GA144.
Not necessarily cheaper but better under control, better specs, ,
smaller, less PC real estate, less connections. Also easier to program
in principle, but current tools don't cut it.

A notable example from the last issue : an rs232 to VGA converter.

Groetjes Albert

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More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-09 10:44 -0700
  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
            Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Charley Shattuck <cshattuck@surewest.net> - 2011-04-17 21:11 +0000
              Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 14:53 -0700
              Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-19 21:13 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-20 17:42 +0000
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-23 04:03 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-04-23 23:10 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-25 09:00 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 17:10 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-05-01 10:37 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-02 00:14 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-05-02 08:20 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-03 21:26 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@greenarraychips.com> - 2011-05-07 20:11 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@greenarraychips.com> - 2011-05-08 22:35 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-09 08:11 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-26 11:22 +0000
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-05-01 10:05 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-02 12:01 +0000
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays foxchip <fox@ultratechnology.com> - 2011-05-02 07:51 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Greg Bailey" <greg@greenarraychips.com> - 2011-05-08 22:23 -0700
              Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-27 23:17 -0700
            Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-17 20:41 -0700
              Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 21:38 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-19 22:20 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-20 00:56 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-20 23:02 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 10:32 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-04-22 22:06 +0200
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-23 18:42 -0700
                Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2011-04-23 12:17 +0100
          Re: More Thoughts on Green Arrays Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-26 11:03 +0000

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