Robot VM options

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Tue Dec 18 02:26:17 UTC 2007


On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:19:18 -0800, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> Not bad for size. A bit different to the old days when the ARM system  
> required a set of 4 chips to get going, aside from the ram/rom/ 
> support. Performance should be reasonable at around 15M bc/sec and  
> around a million sends/sec. Just don't expect to run Morphic nicely :-)

Nope, this is strictly for an embedded headless robot controller.

> Shouldn't you be using an ARM11X6JF-S by now? 600MHz, vector floating  
> point h/w, bigger caches and TCM etc.

Well, the gumstix I am using has a 600 MHz XScale on it. If you can point
me to a board in that size range with that chip on it, I'd be happy...

Later,
Jon

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