Xmos on PCI card

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mechanic

Xmos on PCI card

Posted on: 2011/10/23 20:07 #1

Just popping in

Just watching AmiWest show and Trevor said something about
Xmos on a PCI card for Sam series etc.

Did I hear correctly?

If so.....Whoopee!

More toys, more better.

( Hm? Gonna need at least two of them dudes.)

A1-X1000

Samurai_Crow

Re: Xmos on PCI card

Posted on: 2011/10/24 5:30 #2

Just popping in

Keep in mind that the XMOS chip is good at doing things that hardware interrupts are normally used for. It may improve the latency of some hardware but the speedup of the CPU will only be limited to the avoided pipeline stalls. After all, most hardware interrupts can't be branch predicted.

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