cctech Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25

[Fred Hatfield]

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> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:34:49 +0200
> From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
> Subject: Re: PDP-8s and -10s
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> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:53:53 +0100
> "Andy Holt" <andyh at andyh-rayleigh.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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> [CDC6600 in a FPGA]
>> As the 6600 was entirely built with discrete components, not chips,
>> and yet had to be physically relatively compact, I doubt if it had
>> much more than say 20,000-25,000 gates. Nowadays that isn't anywhere
>> near high end of the FPGA ranges.
> I don't know how many gates, but the Book "Design of a Computer CDC6600"
> states on page 20: "the entire 6600 Computer contains approximately
> 400,000 transistors". It used "Direct-Coupled Transistor Logic" so there
> where way less then 400,000 gates.
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> tschüß,
>       Jochen
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My Xport 2.0 for Gameboy Advance programming has a programmable
FPGA with 150,000 gates.  Doesn't seem to be uncommon
by today's standards.

See:

Gameboy Advantage for Non-Gaming Applicatiions
Turning a fun toy into a powerful tool
Dr. Dobb's Journal, May 2004.
Embedded Systems
http://www.ddj.com

Fred K8VDU