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Re: RCX Replacement Firmware
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:39:22 GMT
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> > That sounds great, almost too good to be true (especially for the 100x
> > version!)

I hope you didn't took the "too good to be true" as a criticism - it was only an
amazement mark!. BTW, is the 10x version a slow down of 100x one, or is it an
older, less optimized version? (once again, I'm not criticizing, I fairly well
understand that you want to retreive some benefit for your work that must have
been daunting!)

> - Use of the Hitachi / Renesas tool chain for development. I found these
> tools to be far more efficient than GCC and others in both the size of
> generated code and its real time performance.

And what about size of your replacement firmware versus regular LEGO one?
What about 32bits/floating point support size? Is it optional?

> I am working on a NQH header file that will provide the #defines to
> enable some of the new functionality like 1 millisecond timing. It
> should be ready in a few days.
> 
> I also have my own home grown IDE that supports the new firmware
> functionality. It's something I plan to review / announce in the next
> few weeks.

I'm not sure that I can test it soon, but I'm definitely interested to try!

Thanks again for your efforts,

Philo



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  Re: RCX Replacement Firmware
 
"Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:I6t5LD.1C8J@lugnet.com... (...) Replacement firmware is up to 100 times faster than the Lego supplied firmware. Lego firmware typically takes 3.2 milliseconds per opcode. In enhanced (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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