An external flash memory chip.
Leon
So, who is behind the Amiga X1000?
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It seems to me that if you are marrying an XMOS device to a host computer system as a "soft peripheral" it is not even necessary to have any FLASH program store for the XMOS. Why not just download whatever XMOS program you require when the host boots up. A simple boot loader in the XMOS one time PROM (OTP) would be enough to take care of that.
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Exactly, but if it's external like Leon said it ought to be entirely possible to use RAM instead, either shared with the main CPU or private. I kinda assumed it had internal flash memory like many microcontroller do.Heater wrote:It seems to me that if you are marrying an XMOS device to a host computer system as a "soft peripheral" it is not even necessary to have any FLASH program store for the XMOS. Why not just download whatever XMOS program you require when the host boots up. A simple boot loader in the XMOS one time PROM (OTP) would be enough to take care of that.
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The TSMC processes used for the XMOS chips don't allow on-chip flash. If it was added, the devices would have to use a different, slower process.