@Zylesea

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Zylesea wrote: @olegil a few yars back I thought about pretty simple PPC based on the 5125. http://via.i-networx.de/eframe/eframe.htm Low end - low price. And IMHO as long as it stays below 100 ($|EUR) it's not a purchase most ppl have to justify but rather pay from their running living-budget.

Not a viable solution. 5125 clock frequency stops at 400 MHz and no Altivec.

It has no horsepower for not any modern software usability. Much better 5121 CPU.

MPC 5121 frequency also stops at 400 MHz but it is dual core (or o it seems to me at a first glance) and it has embedded 2D and 3D graphic section that it can be used with profit, but still no Altivec, that nowadays is a must for multimedia.

Last edited by Raffaele on 28-Nov-2015 at 03:17 PM.

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@Raffaele

The 512x family is not an option anymore. I thougt about a 5125 design a few years ago.
The 5121 is not dualcore, but has a DSP like additional "core" to the e300 core. It's a nice chip which was in discussion too, but the objective back then was "stay simple - stay cheap" and hence the 5121 won the race for that design case. Anyway it hadn't left early design phase, primarily as I lacked funds and knowledge.

But the e300/400 is not as bad as it sounds. It pretty the same as in the Efika5200B which still runs surprisingly well (if it only had more RAM).

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@OlafS25

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OlafS25 wrote: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/ unbelievable

It isn't worth it. I'd rather have everything included rather than having to add it.
The Raspberry PI never had enough GPIO pins anyway.
Their support is terrible.