From: David VanHorn <microbrix@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 08:39:58 -0700
Subject: Re: [EE] Using a microcontroller as a peripheral?
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The modern PC will frequently have a graphics card which is vastly more
powerful than the CPU.
I ran software called XFDTD on an Nvidia Titan card, where a given sim
would complete in 5 or 6 hours, and without the graphics card, in 2 or 3
years.


On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 7:02 AM Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> wrote:

> On 10/5/20 8:30 AM, Alan Pearce wrote:
> > Just been looking into this myself. Check out the enhanced mode of the
> > parallel master port. That allows 4 addressable locations that make up
> > one 32 bit word inside the PIC32. it is described quite succinctly in
> > the FRM chapter.
>
> Thanks, I don't think I've looked that up so far. :-)
>
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