The Parallax Propeller Microcontroller
Very neat chip and very powerful....I hope to get my hands on one of these soon.
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Parallax Propeller
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Parallax P8X32 Propeller, introduced in 2006, is a multi-core architecture parallel microcontroller with eight 32-bit RISC CPU cores.
The Parallax propeller, its built in SPIN programming language and bytecode interpreter, and the "Propeller Tool" integrated development environment were all designed by one person, Parallax's co-founder and president Chip Gracey.
Multi-core architecture
Each of the eight 32-bit cores (called a cog) has an elementary ALU (division is not directly supported) and access to 512 32-bit long words (2 KB) of instructions and data. Self-modifying code is possible and is used internally, for example by an instruction that is used to create a subroutine call/return mechanism without the need for a stack. Access to memory (32 KB RAM; 32 KB ROM) is controlled in round-robin fashion by an internal bus controller called the hub. Each cog also has access to two dedicated hardware counters and two special "video registers" for use in generating PAL, NTSC, VGA, servo-control, or other timing signals.
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Parallax Propeller
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Parallax P8X32 Propeller, introduced in 2006, is a multi-core architecture parallel microcontroller with eight 32-bit RISC CPU cores.
The Parallax propeller, its built in SPIN programming language and bytecode interpreter, and the "Propeller Tool" integrated development environment were all designed by one person, Parallax's co-founder and president Chip Gracey.
Multi-core architecture
Each of the eight 32-bit cores (called a cog) has an elementary ALU (division is not directly supported) and access to 512 32-bit long words (2 KB) of instructions and data. Self-modifying code is possible and is used internally, for example by an instruction that is used to create a subroutine call/return mechanism without the need for a stack. Access to memory (32 KB RAM; 32 KB ROM) is controlled in round-robin fashion by an internal bus controller called the hub. Each cog also has access to two dedicated hardware counters and two special "video registers" for use in generating PAL, NTSC, VGA, servo-control, or other timing signals.
