5 Sep
2023
5 Sep
'23
4:08 p.m.
Some of the Analog Devices Sharcs have similar interconnection topologies, e.g. the
ADSP-21160 had six bytewide link ports, doubtless an expressio of the sincerest form of
flatery.
Subsequent Sharcs were more targeted to single DSP functionality.
The baremetal 12 Sharc boards I worked on were for masochists.
Martin
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Subject: [cctalk] Re: TI 960
On 5 Sep 2023, at 06:01, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
…
Weren't the TI 900 series the things called
Transputers?
Closest thing to a Transputer from TI I can think of were the C-series DSP chips: eg TMS
320C40, although they used 6x byte-wide parallel ports not the 4x bit-wide serial ports of
the Transputer.
Some Transputer software was ported to them, including Perihelion’s Helios operating
system, iirc.
d