[volt-nuts] "*WAY* too expensive for even Keysight to redesign"

Daniel Mendes dmendesf at gmail.com
Wed May 13 14:36:03 EDT 2015



On 13/05/2015 15:10, Oz-in-DFW wrote:
> On 5/13/2015 1:02 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> --------
>> In message <6.2.5.6.2.20150513113523.072f25d0 at comcast.net>, "Marv @ Home" writes:
>>
>>> Aside, there are private fabrication houses that make short runs of
>>> obsolete chips [...]
>> Ehh, dudes...  a m68k compatible chip is not unobtanium.
>>
>> Besides, the HP3458A is written mostly in K&R style C, using
>> IEEE floating point so porting it to another chip is not a big deal.
>>
> And now that you mention it, there are FPGA/ASIC 68K cores as well.


And now we returned to an emulated version of the original core, as my 
joke predicted....  :D

Daniel


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