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There are probably military systems that use MIPS processors.
by jeffrallen 6y ago
There are probably military systems that use MIPS processors.
- gumby 6y agoSure, I believe I remember an avionics design win but can’t find the reference right now. Those design wins wouldn’t be affected by any such purchases (chips are fabbed by a third party and any procurement contract wouldn’t permit any mask change — quite the opposite). But any new design would pick a new part anyway, and MIPS could simply be dropped from the candidate list — except there would be no reason to: this deal is China-specific and any US supplier would be buying a license from imagination — or from a merchant chip supplier.
- baybal2 6y agoDo you think that Chinese Electronic Warfare companies care about licensing rights?
- RantyDave 6y agoNo, but they might care about being able to get support.
- sudosysgen 6y agoIf you're capable of doing EW, which is basically Black Magic as far as tech is concerned, support for an ISA won't be that much of an issue.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoNot likely to be many. They were never available in a rad hard form. Mil spec micros tend to be old platforms at this point. The most sophisticated was an old PowerPC and there is a VHDL SPARC clone that is popular for ASIC and FPGA implementations.
- doctorshady 6y agoDidn't NASA start using a radiation-hardened R3000 variant? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose-V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose-V
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoAnd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RH-32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RH-32