I really dont
have any preference to a serial chip other than
that it should be
reliable and easy to source. I have no spare T2s
either. All
the spares I have
are the T400 (2-link) transputers.
I've never used one of those. I may have the odd spare T414 (or maybe
even a T8 of some kind) that I can use for this project, though. I
wouldn't be hard to convert the design to use other transputers, of
course.
Sure that seems fine. I also realized the T400s would be a mess as it would
break the pipeline on a B008. Some extrnal ram would be nice. How about
64K of SRAM. That should be plenty for most work I would think.
I don't know who owns the copyright on the
transputer card I designed (T4
or T8 + 256K DRAM + interfaces to some custom hardware), but if it's me,
or I can get permission to hand it round, I'd be happy to release it for
non-commerical use. I will look into this sometime.
That would be nice. I dont have any freely releasable transputer card
designs. People always ask me where they can get transputer cards, with a
design spec, they can build one themselves. Thanks Tony. I really
appreciate it.
Ram