AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Luke Whitmore <lwhitmore@...> wrote:
>
> This is pretty interesting.  I suppose intellectual property law is
> bound to rear it's ugly head when FPGAs are considered.  I wonder if
> there's an open-source movement producing designs in the commons for
> FPGA devices?  AFAIK, Atmel have always been very good to the
> open-source community - how can they adapt once FPGA use becomes more
> ubiquitous?
> 
What if a very fast processor like an XMOS chip is used to emulate an AVR, say. With 400 MIPS and eight concurrent 100/50 MIPS hardware threads available on a $7.50 chip, it should run AVR code much faster than the real thing. I can't see any legality problems doing that, it'c conceptually the same as emulating an AVR on a PC.

Leon