On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:29 -0300, "RC" wrote:
> Really? Could you share some references, please? I'm very curious now...

When I read the first released description of it several years ago it
struck me that way, and when I bumped into Chip Gracey later and asked
him about it, I remember him telling me that the development of it
sprung from FPGAs and SX microcontrollers. Since the speed he was
running it at couldn't support running directly from internal eeprom or
flash, plus the added expense, and needing durability of many
reprogramming cycles, it ended up being even more like the FPGAs it was
initially breadboarded from. Yes, it's a microprocessor, but its boot
process looks a lot like an FPGA.

Bob



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