On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:49 +0100, "Michael Watterson" wrote:
> > You also need an EEPROM for it to load your program. The propeller is
> > like an FPGA in that respect, it runs from RAM but needs to load it at
> > powerup time.
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> You mean it's like an ordinary processor and not like PIC 18F / 16F=20
> etc.. Back in the olden days before FPGAs existed we had EPROMs Or=20
> Occasionally battery backed static RAM/
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> I don't believe Intel has made an x86 yet either with on board flash.=20
> They all run from RAM :-)

Back when the propeller came out, it was many times faster than the
fastest PIC, and since it had eight simple cores, loaded program from
eeprom into RAM, it was so different it didn't fit the microcontroller
model that we had gotten used to. If you look at the block diagram of
it, it's easy to imagine what you'd need to do to prototype it.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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