On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 22:49 +0100, Michael Watterson wrote:
> On 08/06/2011 19:37, Bob Blick 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/

Yes, but in those cases program execution happened from the ROM. Unless
you had a shadowing situation, in which case the propellor type process
was done.

> I don't believe Intel has made an x86 yet either with on board flash.=20
> They all run from RAM :-)

Yes, but again, unlike FPGAs and the propeller, the RAM is external for
x86 (ignoring things like caches).

TTYL



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