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Re: CRC (was Re: [f-cpu] F-CPU architecture...)



Hi F-gang,

Yann Guidon wrote:

2) CRC is not considered as an instruction for F-CPU
(there are too many versions, so that would be very troublesome for no almost benefit)

Well, there is a general formula. But that would require that the crc is computed bitwise, which would take too long. It could handle at most two or three bits per F-CPU pipeline stage - and we need to support at least 32 bits. A carefully designed software implementation may actually be faster. Does anyone care enough to try it out?.


However, putting a CRC32 in the "DMA/blitter engine" would be way cool
(that would require a 32-bit field in the block descriptor with additional flags
like "set/verify"; "irq on error", "valid/invalid CRC" etc.)

You mean, one could DMA some data to /dev/null and let the engine calculate or verify the CRC? Then we don't need a CRC instruction. :-)


I/O bus transfers should always include a checksum for verification anyway. But on the other hand, that need not be a programmable CRC, which makes its implementation a lot easier.

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Michael "Tired" Riepe <michael@xxxxxxxx>
X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little
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