On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Miod Vallat wrote: > > SH-5 is pretty much confidential, if not dead. > > When it was still in the design stage, it was supposed to be produced and used > in America, Europe and Asia, but Hitachi changed its mind and decided it would > be for the asian market only. > > Aside from the SH-5 evaluation boards, it was supposed to be used in some DVD > players, and I don't even know if these products came to life. > > Basically the target applications for this kind of cpu do not really need a > 64 bit cpu, and the ``SHMedia'' instruction set did not get popular enough > for SH-3e or SH-4 based designs to switch over to SH-5. > > Miod
thanks for the quick reply. It sure looked like an interesting design, sounds like Hitachi decided to keep it for themselves. On another note, where can I find a snapshot to load on my Plextor? diana
