From: darek <darek.maksimiuk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: A better HW match for Ada power?
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 12:16:56 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2016-12-07T12:16:56-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db02ae0d-5da7-460e-97a3-395b14701438@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inqv5yza.fsf@nightsong.com>
Hi All,
> A whole nother processor architecture? Like, who needs that?
Apparently there is a market for it - a substantial part of the car industry. The Cortex-R was introduced in 2011 where the TriCore arch is on the market since 1999 (http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/microcontrollers/32-bit/channel.html?channel=ff80808112ab681d0112ab6b64b50805).
In the past, the automotive industry used extensively PowerPC based devices. Since the Freescale went to NXP, and NXP has been acquired by Qualcomm I am not sure how these devices survive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPC5xx).
The TriCore has a time management unit which is probably more complex than the CPU itself (https://www.pls-mc.com/generic-timer-module-gtm-support/features-a-725.html).
Cheers,
Darek
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> These might also be of interest:
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> http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/tools-software/launchpads/launchpads.page#safety
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2016-12-07 18:58 A better HW match for Ada power? darek
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