[Arm-netbook] [review] SoC proposal

lkcl luke luke.leighton at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 22:09:05 GMT 2012


On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 04:18 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
>>>
>>> (I read on the FONC list the other day about a Tilera-based setup where a
>>> full Smalltalk image was running entirely in the 2MB of L2 of each core,
>>> treating main memory as remote storage...)
>>
>>
>> [...] ... but, if you know of anyone who knows about this kinda stuff, and
>>
>> the implications at an application level, i'd really like to hear from
>> them.  these kinds of decisions - bus widths, cache sizes, internal
>> routing architecture - are going to be critical to make sure that the
>> processor can deliver.
>
>
> I'd suggest getting in touch with Jecel Assumpcao Jr.
> http://www.merlintec.com/lsi/jecel.html jecel at merlintec.com who has designed
> and built many fascinating machines over the years.

 ooOoo.  and who has dealt with pretty much every assembly programming
language under the sun.  good call - just the kind of person who will
know what he's doing.

> I'll post on the FONC
> list pointing at this list to see if anyone's interested in the significant
> synergies that might be possible :-)

 yes please.  really appreciated.

 l.



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