27 Aug
2014
27 Aug
'14
8:20 a.m.
At a previous employer where we were doing *bringup*
of new processors on
new hardware (Intel Core2 stuff...before the memory controller was integrated
in with the CPU) we had a "front side bus analyzer". It was "double
pumped"
and running at 800MHz (so logically it's running at 1.6GHz). As I recall that
analyzer was in the high $100,000s (ie pushing $1,000,000).
And in 20 years, that same item will be a $100 hamfest special.
--
Will