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by Heater
Sun May 19, 2013 9:24 am
Forum: Development Tools and Programming
Topic: Is there a way to stop the compiler optimising out code?
Replies: 3
Views: 4328

Re: Is there a way to stop the compiler optimising out code?

Clive, I would suggest that if the use of optimization upsets the timing of your code and causes it to no longer work correctly for you then you have a problem in your code. It sounds to me as if you are using "dead code" to create some kind of delay to get the some timing right. When that...
by Heater
Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:42 pm
Forum: Development Tools and Programming
Topic: xc toolchain for other platforms?
Replies: 29
Views: 20249

Re: xc toolchain for other platforms?

LyleHaze, Wow, you must be in one of the last PPC hangouts around. I'm kind of curious why any Amiga successor is using PPC rather than say ARM or even Intel. After all the Amiga was a 68xxx machine and the PPC is something totally different. Anyway I thought I'd throw a potential solution to your p...
by Heater
Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:34 pm
Forum: XMOS Devices
Topic: A little bit confused: Threads, Cores, Processors?
Replies: 11
Views: 10434

Re: A little bit confused: Threads, Cores, Processors?

Which ever idiot came up with this renaming scheme should be fired immediately. It's just a sad marketing ploy that confuses everyone unnecessarily. I'd even go so far as to say it's dishonest. Or at least misrepresentation.
by Heater
Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:28 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: What would you do with an XDK or XMP-64?
Replies: 57
Views: 61869

Re: What would you do with an XDK or XMP-64?

franksanderdo, Just imagine the options of a parallel processing CP/M ;-) Haha, believe me I have. At least one of my collaborators got multi-user CP/M 3 up and running on the Propeller. Why the hack do I need in our days a fully featured IPC to run a simple traffic light? You would be surprised. Th...
by Heater
Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:53 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Parallella on Kickstarter
Replies: 6
Views: 39403

Re: Parallella on Kickstarter

Also, 4) The chip exists in it's 16 core version and has been used on board designs by another company. So it's kind of proven and that "just" leaves the Zynq board design. Looking at the proposal that seems to amount to taking a reference design from Xilinx and removing all the stuff we d...
by Heater
Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:01 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: What would you do with an XDK or XMP-64?
Replies: 57
Views: 61869

Re: What would you do with an XDK or XMP-64?

Good grief, I thought I was nuts when I started out writing an emulator for the Z80 to run CP/M on a Propeller MCU.
by Heater
Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:48 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Parallella on Kickstarter
Replies: 6
Views: 39403

Re: Parallella on Kickstarter

Chuckt, Some rather scathing comments about the Adapteva Parallella project there. Clearly phrases like "super computer" should be taken with a pinch of salt. The Epiphany chip has been designed with a few constraints that are not applied to parallel efforts like a multi-core Intel CPU or ...
by Heater
Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:40 am
Forum: Development Tools and Programming
Topic: 11.11.1/12.0.0 build problem with legacy project
Replies: 4
Views: 5061

Re: 11.11.1/12.0.0 build problem with legacy project

Leon, What's this in your error output: "C:/Program\"? Looks like some confusion about Windows vs Unix file naming and directory seperators "/" vs "\". Obviously that is supposed to be "C:/Program files/...bla bla" So it looks like the issue is the space in th...
by Heater
Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:53 am
Forum: Other XMOS Development Kits
Topic: sliceKIT is here!
Replies: 76
Views: 57328

Re: sliceKIT is here!

One serious bug:

"The sliceKIT core board features our 16 core L2 device..."

This has to be fixed, all the world is laughing at this double speak. Credibility is being lost.
by Heater
Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:02 am
Forum: Latest news
Topic: 12.0 beta release - xTIMEcomposer Studio & xSOFTip Explorer
Replies: 17
Views: 16558

Re: 12.0 beta release - xTIMEcomposer Studio & xSOFTip Explo

Folknology, Yes. In a, rather large, nutshell yes. I always thought that part of the point of xcore was to encroach on application areas that were traditionally tackeled by FPGA's. Places where: 1) You need the custom logic not available on MCU's that FPGA's offer. 2) You need the speed that softwar...