Wasabi Systems, a provider of embedded BSD products and services, today announced completion of a port of NetBSD to the 64-bit SH-5 processor from SuperH, Inc., on the Cayman Development System. In June, Wasabi Systems became a founding member of the SuperH Partner Program for providing services to SuperH Licensees.
Wasabi Ports NetBSD to the SuperH 64-bit SH-5 Processor
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Coolest company name I’ve seen in awhile. 🙂
I don’t know if you’re talking about Wasabi or SuperH, but you should see Wasabi’s samurai daemon:
http://www.wasabisystems.com/wasabi/images/thumb/brain_tshirt.jpg
Coolest mascot ever.
I’ve got to admit that a single set of CD bootable on x86, Alpha, DECStation, Sparc, VAX and PPC is quite a goody to have.
And yes, the samurai daemon does look good, especially on that bear mug
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the SH4 was a really nice cpu. the SH5 was shaping up to be extra mega cool. I havnt looked toward it since I read some white papers on it. Nice to see it in production. the SHx is a nice cpu family
anyone here had experiance working with these CPUs?
are they better then StrongARM?
i have.. very limited though (sega dreamcast has an sh-4 i think? possibly sh-3 im not sure)
they seem quite nice… i have no experience with StrongARM to make a comparison though..
would like to give it a try.. know any ~cheap~ systems with one?
anyways after playing with some homebrew dreamcast software i have a good opinion of these… im sure the sh-5 will be very nice and hope to get a chance to do some messing
Awww…. Leo…. that T-shirt is adorable! I wanna have one, even though my brain really runs on DOS, but who cares? 🙂
i have.. very limited though (sega dreamcast has an sh-4 i think? possibly sh-3 im not sure)
the DC is an SH4
are they better then StrongARM?
the SH5 goes 64bit (sh4 being 32bit). they are VERY well suited to multimedia
“SH-5 delivers in excess of 700-Mips at 400-MHz, while consuming less than 400mW.
The FPU performs up to four multiply and three addition operations every clock cycle, achieving 2.8-GFLOPs at 400-MHz.”
“SH-5 delivers in excess of 700-Mips at 400-MHz”
wow…
that’s a better Mips/Mhz ratio then the SA-1100, and the fastest StrongARM scales to only ~220Mhz AFAIK… and it’s a 32 biter.
XScale goes up to 1GHz, but right now it’s commercially availeble up to 733Mhz if i’m correct… for those who don’t know, XScale alias StrongARM2 is from intel.
But Hitachi SuperH series are also really good as far as i have seen them.
if XScale is 32 bit, i wonder how a 64bit SH-5@400Mhz compares to a (32 bit?) XScale@733Mhz.