Why?
Herbert Fung
re-engineering the 65816 to run at 14MHz? What other devices other than
the GS and possible the Super Nintendo that might use it? Just curious.
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Soenke Behrens
: I was just thinking, why did Sanyo go through all the trouble of
: re-engineering the 65816 to run at 14MHz? What other devices other than
: the GS and possible the Super Nintendo that might use it? Just curious.
Not many. But the SNES is large enough a market to justify the effort,
no? It might be that Sanyo bought into the ASIC design (ASIC like the
company, not Application Specific Integrated Circuit :), so perhaps
it was not that much of an effort for them.
Soenke
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Cameron Silver
>Herbert Fung (herb...@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:
>: I was just thinking, why did Sanyo go through all the trouble of
>: re-engineering the 65816 to run at 14MHz? What other devices other than
>: the GS and possible the Super Nintendo that might use it? Just curious.
>Not many. But the SNES is large enough a market to justify the effort,
>no? It might be that Sanyo bought into the ASIC design (ASIC like the
>company, not Application Specific Integrated Circuit :), so perhaps
>it was not that much of an effort for them.
>Soenke
Some pinball machines also use 65816s.
Just thought I'd mention it!
Cameron
Jawaid Bazyar
>Herbert Fung (herb...@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:
>: I was just thinking, why did Sanyo go through all the trouble of
>: re-engineering the 65816 to run at 14MHz? What other devices other than
>: the GS and possible the Super Nintendo that might use it? Just curious.
>Not many. But the SNES is large enough a market to justify the effort,
>no?
It is, but SNES's don't run at 14MHz.
>It might be that Sanyo bought into the ASIC design (ASIC like the
>company, not Application Specific Integrated Circuit :), so perhaps
>it was not that much of an effort for them.
It wouldn't have been, but that's not what they did either.
Sanyo is working on a personal data assistant type project and decided
that the 816 was the perfect processor for it. So... they made one.
Hey, when you're a $4billion + corporation, you can do things like that! :)
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: behr...@hphalle6.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Soenke Behrens) writes:
:
: >Herbert Fung (herb...@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:
:
: >: I was just thinking, why did Sanyo go through all the trouble of
: >: re-engineering the 65816 to run at 14MHz? What other devices other than
: >: the GS and possible the Super Nintendo that might use it? Just curious.
:
: >Not many. But the SNES is large enough a market to justify the effort,
: >no?
:
: It is, but SNES's don't run at 14MHz.
:
: >It might be that Sanyo bought into the ASIC design (ASIC like the
: >company, not Application Specific Integrated Circuit :), so perhaps
: >it was not that much of an effort for them.
:
: It wouldn't have been, but that's not what they did either.
:
: Sanyo is working on a personal data assistant type project and decided
: that the 816 was the perfect processor for it. So... they made one.
: Hey, when you're a $4billion + corporation, you can do things like that! :)
:
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a Newton-GS.. ;)
What does the SNES-CD going to use?
Also, who makes the SNES 65816? WDC?
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Brian Tao
>
>Oh really? Heh, maybe there could be a GS Emulator, No? I'd love to see
>a Newton-GS.. ;)
>
>What does the SNES-CD going to use?
Apparently a 21-MHz 65816, if I'm not mistaken. I think I will hold off
upgrading my ZipGS until then and blow the rest of you guys out of the water.
;-)
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>>
>>What does the SNES-CD going to use?
>
> Apparently a 21-MHz 65816, if I'm not mistaken. I think I will hold off
>upgrading my ZipGS until then and blow the rest of you guys out of the water.
This is very unlikely. There may very well be fast 65816's in their game
cartridges, but their CD will be a 32 bit one. Moreover since it will be
CD-I compatible that implies something.
Philip McDunnough
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