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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Felsche" <bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 01:39
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: Semi manufacturers ?


> On Friday 06 August 2004 07:06, erikc wrote:
> > Well, if you want to develop semiconductors, why not a
RAM
> > chip with a simple processor built in?  The processor
would
> > have its own small RAM for holding its programmes and a
> > means of entering those programmes, causing them to run,
and
> > getting results off-chip.   You'd load all the little
CPU's
> > in parallel and let them loose, each one looking at the
data
> > on its own chip.  Now I'm not talking a CPU with some
RAM,
> > I'm talking 256 megabytes of RAM and maybe 4K of
entirely
> > separate RAM for the CPU's code.  Since you are
basically
> > using it to search for patterns, the CPU could be
optimised
> > for that.
> >
> > I actually think there might be a market for that kind
of
> > thing.
>
> You mean a large, secondary data cache on a simple
processor,
> or a CPU with mega-registers?

No, you're still stuck in the mindset of "CPU with RAM".
I'm having it the other way around.  A big DRAM with a
little CPU in one corner.  It's address pointers would be
whatever size needed to address the memory on that one chip.
Someone not knowing that there was a CPU inside could still
use the part as a "dumb" DRAM.

> There's still matter of partial matches spanning
boundaries.


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