Replies to post #8457 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[UpNDown]

yourbankruptcy, on embedded AMD64

Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines a while ago. Look at the attributes of the Athlon-64 as an embedded chip: it has 1MB L2 cache and an integrated memory controller and will be relatively cheap. (Let's ignore power arguments for the moment.)

I'm not in the embedded business, so really, this could be way off base, but couldn't the Athlon-64 be hooked up to flash and run an embedded system completely in cache with no DRAM at all? Might take some fancy footwork in the cache control software on cache-line evictions, but it might be doable.

Just idle thoughts on my noon-time run...

[Haddock]

The MIPS processor I linked to is also HyperTransport-based.

You can run as full a Linux distribution as you like on a MIPS if you choose Debian, which basically has everything Red Hat has. Of course, for an embedded system you aren't going to want much of a standard desktop Linux installed - all the things you don't install you don't have to test!