[Coco] The Tri-Annual CoCo 4 Thread

[S Klammer]

Thanks Mark, I understand what you stated; however,  what I tried to say is
whether the FPGA itself has a finite number of re-writes?  ie. how many
times could someone expect to chsnge the MiST between Amiga, Atari ST,
(etc), before failure?

sk
On 2014-02-06 11:31 PM, "Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On 7/02/2014 2:08 PM, S Klammer wrote:
>
> > FPGA designs are definitely beneficial, whether propriety or "generic"
> > (like the Mist); however, is there not a finite number of 'rewriting' of
> > the core?
>
> The core itself can be *relatively* target-independent, especially if it
> was designed so in the first place.
>
> Where it will come unstuck is where you have, say, SRAM vs SDRAM. Or CF vs
> SD. And of course where you have a lack of particular support on the
> hardware itself, like a lack of PS/2 or flash.
>
> Regardless, every distinct target hardware will require some customisation
> of the source, even if it is little more than device pin definitions and
> mapping.
>
> Regards,
>
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