well... i think people would really like to run video game console emulators. emulator authors face the issue of how to best emulate multiple ICs and combine them into a linear program (multithreading is useless, trust me). with the epiphany, the complexities are vastly reduced because you only have to write an emulator of a single IC per core and send data and IRQs via a standard message passing scheme.
full speed emulation for a consoles that you cannot get without a manycore processor like epiphany (the key to success is giving people what they cant get elsewhere) would put parallella/epiphany on the map. it would be even better if you had an interface like XBMC that you could control with a bluetooth ps3 controller so you could plug it into your TV (HDMI woo!) and use like a real console. hell, with some modifications (drive that can actually read all the discs) and a case, you could make it a hot selling item.
i have yet to see a proper saturn, dreamcast, gamecube or playstation 2 emulator and i think they could be done using a parallella with an epiphany III chip.Statistics: Posted by Gravis — Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:27 am
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