Real computer the size of a grain of rice
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Miniaturisation keeps going.
Even the Atmega chip found in the Arduino is powerful. I found the Atmega specs for it and as I was browsing through I got the strong impression it has so much I/O bits and pieces because they had silicon to spare so they kept adding things! I could be wrong... Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/ |
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I thought for a while that they should put an i386 on just about everything.
The i386 had 275,000 transistors. The Core M has 1.3B on 82 mm^2 in the 14 nm Broadwell process. If all else were equal (which it isn't), the could make an i386 on 82 x 275,000/1.3E9 = 0.0173 mm^2 = a square 0.132 mm on a side. The Michigan Micro Mote is huge compared to that, but it is more than just a CPU. At $2/mm^2 (ballpark price boxed CPU price), the modern i386 would cost about $0.03. Neat stuff. Cheers, Scott. |
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Not a bad idea.
Quite a bit more powerful than a Z80 but only slightly more difficult to program in assembler, especially if your embedded project only needs real mode. Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/ |