Omega XScale support in 2004? By Chris Williams. Published: 20th May 2004, 22:34:12 | Permalink | PrintableDidn't we ask this last year? In the latest newsletter from Desk, published yesterday, the Dutch dealer has reported that Microdigital are currently focused on completing their 'ARMTwister' technology for the StrongARM powered Omega computer. Desk have suggested that Microdigital are aiming to have demonstrable, working XScale support ready in time for the Expo show.
Desk are also the main sponsors of this year's Expo event, which is to be held next month in the Netherlands.
The Omega currently runs RISC OS 4, which is a 26bit OS, whereas the Intel XScale processor that MD want to use is fully 32bit and has no 26bit support. According to Microdigital, the ARMTwister is "a JIT (just-in-time) code translation system to convert 26bit-only instructions into the 32bit equivalent ones, on the fly. It is implemented in the Omega NorthBridge FPGA. This takes advantage of the natural parallelism of hardware to implement the various table look-ups and calculations necessary to convert ARM code, as it is loaded into the CPU instruction cache."
The Omega was first announced in October 2000, and eventually shipped in 2003.
Links
Desk website
RISC OS and 32bit, from riscos.info
Previous: Castle opens RISC OS future wishlist
Next: Wakefield 2004 theatre talks
Discussion Viewing threaded comments | View comments unthreaded, listed by date | Skip to the endPlease login before posting a comment. Use the form on the right to do so or create a free account.
|
Search the archives
Today's featured article
Iyonix Review Part One The hardware, the alternatives, the history.
16 comments, latest by Martyn Fox on 22/4/03 1:01PM. Published: 5 Dec 2002
Random article
Web-based Textease unveiled Edit documents anywhere there's an Internet connection
Discuss this. Published: 26 Mar 2007
Useful links
News and media:
Iconbar •
MyRISCOS •
ArcSite •
RISCOScode •
ANS •
C.S.A.Announce •
Archive •
Qercus •
RiscWorld •
Drag'n'Drop •
GAG-News
Top developers:
RISCOS Ltd •
RISC OS Open •
MW Software •
R-Comp •
Advantage Six •
VirtualAcorn
Dealers:
CJE Micros •
APDL •
Castle •
a4 •
X-Ample •
Liquid Silicon •
Webmonster
Usergroups:
WROCC •
RONE •
NKACC •
IRUG •
SASAUG •
ROUGOL •
RONWUG •
MUG •
WAUG •
GAG •
RISCOS.be
Useful:
RISCOS.org.uk •
RISCOS.org •
RISCOS.info •
Filebase •
Chris Why's Acorn/RISC OS collection •
NetSurf
Non-RISC OS:
The Register •
The Inquirer •
Apple Insider •
BBC News •
Sky News •
Google News •
xkcd •
diodesign
|