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Some Thoughts on Kato Prior Art

posted on Jul 09, 2008 03:52AM

Keeping in mind the benefits of the 336 which are as follows:

Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a microprocessor with a reduced pin count and cost compared to conventional microprocessors.

It is another object of the invention to provide a high performance microprocessor that can be directly connected to DRAMs without sacrificing microprocessor speed.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a high performance microprocessor in which DMA does not require use of the main CPU during DMA requests and responses and which provides very rapid DMA response with predictable response times.

Some (probably not all) Problems I see with Kato 4766567

Not a free running clock system.

Synchronous with off chip peripherals, hence slow.

Apparently the ALU is the processing unit. Is this a microprocessor? Would we call it one today?

Where’s the DRAM, which is the object of the 336 invention?

Wording eliminates any possibility of a second off-chip clock, which is critical to the 336 invention.