While perusing the Renesas SuperH Roadmap web page this morning I noticed the SH-5 is no longer included. Does any one know what happened to this CPU? Did Renesas not get it out of the Hitachi deal?
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
