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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 20:11:50 JST clacke
   Someone just said that some person's presentation said that more development is done in J-Core than in RISC-V. I've never heard of J-Core before.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 20:11:51 JST clacke

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     "J-core is a clean-room open source processor and SOC design using the SuperH instruction set, implemented in VHDL and available royalty and patent free under a BSD license."

     j-core.org/

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 20:11:55 JST clacke

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     "The SuperH processor is a Japanese design developed by Hitachi in the late 1990's. As a second generation hybrid RISC design it was easier for compilers to generate good code for than earlier RISC chips, and it recaptured much of the code density of earlier CISC designs by using fixed length 16 bit instructions (with 32 bit register size and address space), using microcoding to allow some instructions to perform multiple clock cycles of work. (Earlier pure risc designs used one instruction per clock cycle even when that served no purpose but to make the code bigger and exhaust the encoding space.)

     Hitachi developed 4 generations of SuperH. SH2 made it to the United states in the Sega Saturn game console, and SH4 powered the Sega Dreamcast. They were also widely used in areas outside the US cosumer market, such as the japanese automative industry."

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     chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 20:12:04 JST chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

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     @clacke you made me interested in making a SuperH emulator or something of that sort

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 20:12:05 JST clacke

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     @a13cui I expect there are Dreamcast emulators out there you could look at, and in the other direction people have put Linux on the Dreamcast.
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     chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 20:41:08 JST chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

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     @clacke I know, although I'm less interested in the Dreamcast and more in J-Core and Renesas MCUs in general

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