Re: R6502AP

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:10:28 +0100
Message-ID: <54823B64.5080803@wfmh.org.pl>
On 2014-12-05 23:40, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:

>>>>> http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/
>>>>>
>>>>> "With 200MHz+ 8-bit W65C02S and 100MHz+ 8/16-bit W65C816S processors
>>>>> coming on line in ASIC and FPGA forms, we see these annual volumes
>>>>> continuing for a long, long time."
>>>>
>>>> Hmm... and nobody has ever placed this in a 64 yet?
>>>
>>> You think DRAM latency was a limiting factor in 1982, try with a 200
>>> MHz CPU.  :-)
>>
>> I wouldn't insist on using the old DRAMs with this :-)
> 
> Even with SRAM you'd need RAM with 2.5ns access time if you want to use
> a 200 MHz 6502...

I am not completely sure now but AFAIR 1.5ns has been achieved already a
few years ago with SRAMs.

> Maybe a bit slower if you don't want to share the bus
> with an equally fast video chip.

There is no equally fast VIC chip so it would have to be done in some
intelligent way. I don't know - like using only the available bus time
to run @200MHz? There was this 2MHz 6502 project for the 64. Maybe
something similar, only at 200 or whatever the RAM can keep up with.

-- 
SD!

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