Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system RTE6/VM?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Dec 11 13:55:54 2003

Peter Wallace wrote:
> No thats not bad, especially if you use SDRAM, which would be fast enough
> if a small FIFO is used to smooth out the page crossing delays

The slowest SDRAM you can buy now is fast enough that page crossings
are not a problem. You could actually completely avoid use of page
mode, in which case the data rate from the SDRAM is constant.

However, since FPGAs give you small FIFOs at zero incremental cost,
there's no reason to try to avoid them.

Of course, some people don't want to use FPGAs.
Received on Thu Dec 11 2003 - 13:55:54 GMT