MCF5206

[Rod Barman]

> would building the efi332 CPU and serial port modules be a better 
> method??

While the coldfire chips are nice processors for a good price they
don't have the infamous TPU (time processing unit).  If you cruise
over to the efi332 web page you will discover why the tpu is so 
great and why it saves you a ton of effort.  Also, the '332 is
now fairly easy to get and not too expensive.  Funny, but when we
started the efi332 project they were still new and exciting.

I'd suspect that both the coldfire and power pc controllers will 
eventually get the TPU module (plus A/D, flash, etc) if they
don't already.

--rod.

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Rod Barman, IRIS IS-6 @ Laboratory for Computational Intelligence
University of British Columbia
rodb at cs.ubc.ca