[News] Nueron/NuOS: Amiga-inspired computer project based on Coldfire processors | ANN.lu |
Posted on 21-Jan-2004 19:44 GMT by Senex | 68 comments View flat View list |
In the forum of Amiga.org, Stephen Smith of Austex Software ("Uropa2") presented his Amiga-inspired project Nueron/NuOS, a Coldfire computer with its own operating system. (A german translation can be found at amiga-news.de.)
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Posted by koan on 22-Jan-2004 21:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 (Nate Downes): > Some ASIC use masks, but nowadays there are other ASICs that are closer to
> "write-once" FPGA's than the ancient technologies once used.
Even if that is the case the development cycle is much more expensive than with FPGAs: if you make a mistake, you've wasted a device. With an FPGA, if you make a mistake you just reconfigure with a new bitfile.
We all know how mistakes found later in the development cycle cost more to correct than mistakes found early on. Mistakes will always be found at very late stages but then it is a case of "is it worth correcting or can we live with it ?"
Therefore, I still don't believe ASICs would be more cost effective than FPGAs.
Also I still don't agree with your original statement that implied that a properly configured ASIC would be more reliable than a properly configured FPGA.
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