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Subject: Re: A better HW match for Ada power?
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Hi All,=20
> A whole nother processor architecture?  Like, who needs that?
Apparently there is a market for it - a substantial part of the car industr=
y. The Cortex-R was introduced in 2011 where the TriCore arch is on the mar=
ket since 1999 (http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/microcontrollers/32-=
bit/channel.html?channel=3Dff80808112ab681d0112ab6b64b50805).=20

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=
).=20

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/fea=
tures-a-725.html).

Cheers,
 Darek=20

>=20
> These might also be of interest:
>=20
> http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/tools-software/launchpads/launchpads.page#safet=
y