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From: "J.D. Bakker" <bakker@t...>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:12:11 +0100
Subject: Re: [openppc] Articia & Escena
At 14:27 -0500 20-11-2001, Phillip L. Harbison wrote:
>M&M's wrote:
>> They can, but don't want...
>
>At least Motorola has increased the speed of the MPC107. I
>believe it is up to 100MHz memory bus now. But, IIRC, still
>no report for synchronous DRAM, AGP, etc.
>
>> I did not have time to look at the chips you sent as attachment,
>> but I think these are not modern enough for a decent G4
>> implementation. Correct me if I am wrong.
>
>The Articia chip looks promising. It supports a 133 MHz memory
>bus and SDRAM. It supports two busses: a PCI bus with 3 slot
>loads and an AGP bus, or dual PCI busses. In the dual PCI mode,
>I believe the second bus is 64-bit PCI. I may try a design
>with this chip. I mainly want to build a server (a dual G4
>version of the Apple Network Server) so AGP wasn't very high
>on my priority list but support for 133 MHz and SDRAM is.
Have you looked at the Galileo/Marvell Discovery GT-64260 ? Dual
64/66 PCI, built-in Ethernet, MPX bus support and much more goodies.
See
http://www.marvell.com/Internet/Products/Product_Family/1,2413,1-4,00.shtml
HTH,
JDB.
[working on an open hardware dual G4 himself]
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