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Yeah, it's too bad that the Green Array technology (http://www.greenarraychips.com/ http://www.greenarraychips.com/) never put out a similar product for $99.
by hosh 13y ago
Yeah, it's too bad that the Green Array technology (http://www.greenarraychips.com/ http://www.greenarraychips.com/) never put out a similar product for $99.
- dragontamer 13y agoPoint taken :-) There always are other chips that I'm not aware of...
- hosh 13y agoGranted, you would have had to use this strange dialect of Forth called Color Forth. Getting a kit together that you can hack on requires more than $99. On the other hand, that array runs clockless and can mimic analog signals. I think Parallela is easily the most accessible super computer, suitable for hobbyists. I expect a lot of interesting things to come out of it, the way Arduino opened up a lot of device hacking for people. I had passed on kickstarter on it and it wasn't until I got interested in deep belief networks that I kicked myself for not jumping in.
- aidenn0 13y agoI would hazard a guess that the epiphany cores are more heavyweight than the GA cores. The GA cores are extremely lightweight, to the point where it is expected that even the simplest tasks will involve several of them cooperating. On the other hand the GA chips are optimized for low power and have significantly more tightly integrated IO than the epiphany.
- hosh 13y agoThe GA cores are meant to be linked together. According to the docs and videos, you use the special IDE to define blocks or grids of GA cores and have them working in tandem. The GA's biggest weakness is probably the lack of software and libraries. On the other hand, you could essentially create software-configurable DSPs, or program the entire array to act as a single, traditional CPU core.