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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:45 pm 
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My project [ http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php?project=138 ] was approved on 20th March 2006 and I did not receive a board yet. :-(

Did I get it right that according to the thread "EFIKA Developer Program" [ http://www.ppczone.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=484 ] no boards have been shipped yet?

Any information when the boards will be available/reach developers?

thx && regards,
-mika-


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:12 pm 
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Hi mika, as soon as we have everything working as it needs to be to support the depth and breath of the projects we have approved.

It won't be much longer. We have been through these sorts of difficulties before with the Pegasos I. This time there won't be repetative versions. It will be right from the start (and we improved the outlook for the 5200B too!).

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:36 pm 
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Thanks for information and the fast reply (wow)!
I'm looking forward receiving the board! :-)

thx && regards,
-mika-


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BBRV

There's no MAI without April!

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BBRV

There's no MAI without April!

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... and that turned out to be a prophecy ... that turned out to come true! ;-)


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The 5200B was designed to be an "embedded" processor. In the meanwhile, the world of computing has continued to evolve and Freescale went through (and is still going through) a huge transition (from being part of Motorola to standing as an independent semiconductor company of its own). The best thing that can happen with the EFIKA Projects is that they demonstrate the extensibility of the 5200B far beyond the original design parameters. We are confident this will happen. We can see the results already.

In general, this sort of thing - moving well past the original design intent - is going to occur more and more. Not only chips will be pushed beyond their unquestioned limits but operating systems and applications too. Code can be optimized and tools like altivec can create huge improvements in performance. As a rule we (i.e., the community) have taken what we have been served - this is what the chip does, use it, thanks and call us if you have a problem. When we start to concentrate back to what we have and make it better this *will* start to change things and imbalance the status quo that has the industry stuck where it is now. Sound like a revolution? It will be. An enormous one! Genesi will be out front. The Developers that produce successful EFIKA Projects will one day be identified as the leaders of the big changes coming. Wait and see...;-)

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but the 5200b ist based on the 603e which doesn't support altivec.


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Crest, of course you are right. We meant in general and used altivec as an example of an accelerator that can be useful to improve performance. For the 5200B there is something different. Perhaps, you have heard of the BestComm Engine? We will be releasing a new compiler for it. How does that sound?

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Perhaps, you have heard of the BestComm Engine? We will be releasing a new compiler for it. How does that sound?
Not as good as AltiVec sounds :wink:. BestComm is basically a DMA engine (something like in Marvell chipset) with very limited data processing. It can't be compared to AltiVec in for example multimedia applications.

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Perhaps, you have heard of the BestComm Engine? We will be releasing a new compiler for it. How does that sound?
Not as good as AltiVec sounds :wink:. BestComm is basically a DMA engine (something like in Marvell chipset) with very limited data processing. It can't be compared to AltiVec in for example multimedia applications.
No, but it's another example of a general "performance improver", right? ;-)


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but it will help nevertheless for streaming content from a hard drive....


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