Re: Atmel releasing FLASH AVR32 ?


"Jim Granville" <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wilco Dijkstra wrote:

It is impossible to run code at a predictable speed, so you're
screwed no matter whether you use a cache or not.

?! - what ?
Or are you talking only within the ARM subset of the CPU universe here ?

I guess you haven't heard about interrupts, wait states, cycle
stealing DMA and other niceties then. Some of use live in the
real world...

Wilco


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