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To: Just4Fun who wrote (2312)	9/10/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: Urlman	Respond to of 2775

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To: Just4Fun who wrote (2312)	9/11/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: Urlman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2775

Advancel's TinJ VS Patriot Scientific's PSC1000 From: Kunal Singh Friday, Sep 11 1998 4:56PM ET Reply # of 5514 Urlman, regarding the Advancel's chips, Their power dissipation and smaller size seems to be their primary advantage against PicoJava, and the more contenders against PicoJava the better in my opinion, particularly before they come to market. I'm not aware of what exactly the power dissipation of PSC1000 is, but it should be less than PicoJava due to the smaller number of transistors. It does nothing to challenge the primary strength of the PSC1000, the IOP, the "second processor" integrated into the CPU. PSC1000 is a more "full-fledged" processor with a larger address space of up to 4 GB. And its IOP makes it unique in the industry for doing real-time I/O which requires additional chips like the 8051 with other processors which could possibly degrade performance due to the need to coordinate the interaction between the two. PSC has a higher clock rate, can address more space, provides a DMA controller with peak capabilities of 200MB/s. In short, as a single CPU system, the PSC1000 would be hard to beat for most applications even by Advancel's chips. I'm not sure as to the pricing of Advancel's chips. But anything requiring fast I/O, and you can forget Advancel! For fast I/O you need the DMAC and the IOP! I've got a feeling PSC will find greater use in more areas than just Java interpretation which seems to be the single-minded target for Advancel's chips.