#1448 - JonH - Sun Jan 19, 2003 12:06 am
Does anyone have a nice (or indeed, rough) diagram or schematic of the internal GBA hardware structure? This sort of thing might come in handy for my project, ie. it will help me to explain things to some "uneducated" types ;)
#1454 - Splam - Sun Jan 19, 2003 12:58 am
You want a cpu block diagram or general one?
#1456 - ampz - Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:06 am
Not much to say... It's one big fat ASIC with everything connected to it.
The exact layout of the ASIC is of course only known by nintendo.
#1460 - JonH - Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:24 am
well, i was thinking just how the memory is mapped out, etc. I'll just make my own based on the header files i've got - it shouldn't really be too hard. just wondered if anyone had already done anything like this before to save me doing the hard bits! ;)
#1461 - ampz - Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:29 am
#1463 - JonH - Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:54 am
wow thats full of loads of cool stuff! nice one. :)
#1470 - imikeyi - Sun Jan 19, 2003 11:02 am
I'm clueless when it comes to electronics, so I was wondering, what's an ASIC and what does it stand for? Is it like an integrated circuit?
Secondly, I was wondering just how hard it would be to build a small integrated circuit that has its own memory, cpu etc.. I've always wished I could build a small system with a cheap cpu and program it myself.
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#1472 - ampz - Sun Jan 19, 2003 12:17 pm
imi: ASIC = Application Specific Integrated Circuit
for a progrtammable chip with CPU, RAM, etc... ckeck out AVR's (www.avrfreaks.net)
#1475 - imikeyi - Sun Jan 19, 2003 2:02 pm
Cool, are these AVR's just boards with a cpu, ram, and adc's/dac's etc? I programmed for a BS2 board with a basicStamp cpu for a while, is this the same sort of thing?
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#1481 - ampz - Sun Jan 19, 2003 3:24 pm
An AVR is a MCU.
Really, read some FAQ's about MCU's...