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SubjectRe: Cobalt Micro (was Re: Build your own Motherboards)
Hello,

> You can however do something not very complicated like ISA cards, serial
> and parallel port devices. I have not heard of any custom created (i.e.ham
> radio) pci cards.

As opposed to ISA, interfacing to PCI requires an awful lot of gates,
therefore forcing you to use at least a gate array.

> One can muse that perhaps USB (and maybe even FireWire)
> will allow this, since dealing with a few wires and interface designed to
> work with long wires will be easier.

USB is not easy to interface, but ...

> One can also hope for the existence
> of integrated microcontrollers (say USB on one side and 16 bit bus on the
> other).

... at least Intel produces such microcontrollers.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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