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Re: [openppc] Articia & Escena



M&M's wrote:
> They can, but don't want...

At least Motorola has increased the speed of the MPC107.  I
believe it is up to 100MHz memory bus now.  But, IIRC, still
no report for synchronous DRAM, AGP, etc.

> I did not have time to look at the chips you sent as attachment,
> but I think these are not modern enough for a decent G4
> implementation. Correct me if I am wrong.

The Articia chip looks promising.  It supports a 133 MHz memory
bus and SDRAM.  It supports two busses: a PCI bus with 3 slot
loads and an AGP bus, or dual PCI busses.  In the dual PCI mode,
I believe the second bus is 64-bit PCI.  I may try a design
with this chip.  I mainly want to build a server (a dual G4
version of the Apple Network Server) so AGP wasn't very high
on my priority list but support for 133 MHz and SDRAM is.

-- 
Phil Harbison
mailto:alvitar@xavax.com
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