Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

--- Nick Rothwell <nick@...> wrote:
> > Actually, we did make them.  All of them.
> 
> Apart from the Xilinx control chips, presumably.

We made all of the ASICs.  There is the occasional other chip on there
like the control CPU (motorola) and the Xilinx FPGA (but of course, you
have to program those!), but all of the 7 ASICs on there are ours.

> Is that for reasons of IP protection? Or because supporting such
> tools would be something of a resource drain?

Both, and more.  Releasing technical documentation would be of no use
to someone without the whole programming environment and source code. 
As Ravi amusingly pointed out (and I paraphrase) "this ain't no
stinkin' webbrowser"...  =)

-Aaron

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