Phoebus wrote:
That's excellent news... I was under the impression... or at least talk and Motorola's own press releases gave me that impression, that the situation was very bleak. Will see also how Motorola will go ahead with the publicised full compatibility with the 68K (and the ultra high speeds they have in their "roadmap" (Trendy word this one these days ;-)
Almost the ColdFire V4e had been released in spring. Motorola decided to change some of the peripheral units on the chip, hence the delay. Don't expect more than 333 MHz, maybe 266 MHz for the first silicon. V4e still won't be able to properly trap out *all* 68k instructions that are not equivalently implemented. But it is much better than all previous versions, and the number of oddities is so small that I guess only handwritten assembler code will be affected.
Can you point where Motorola publicised full compatibility with the 68K?
All the best Peter
