[time-nuts] Questionable question about the Lucent RFTGs

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Dec 5 15:20:29 EST 2014


doug at dougronald.com said:
> Also, yes, the 68000 latency most likely required an FPGA's real time
> capabilities.

The 68000 was "just" a CPU.  It didn't have the typical counter/timers (or 
other IO gear) that are found in many modern chips targeted at the embedded 
market.  Today, you can probably get everything you need on an Arm SOC.  
That's ROM/Flash, RAM, counter/timer and UART.


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