Actually I have no firm idea how fast the eMate runs, with or without
accelleration. I've seen literature that claims it runs at 25 MHz and more
literature that claims it runs at 27 MHz. The software that reports it
running at 20 MHz might be wrong because it was not written for the eMate at
all, it was for the MP130.
Regardless of how fast the eMate runs, sped up or not, it's still pretty
darn slow compared to an MP2x00.
The crystal speeds I tried in the eMate were:
4.something (maybe 4.192) MHz, which worked fine
5.000 MHz which I use all the time
6.000 MHz which the eMate would not even start with
I did not experiment with any values between 5.000 and 6.000 MHz for the
crystal, so there may be some more 'room' in there above 5. I doubt it will
make much difference in the long run, though. The eMate is always going to
seem slow next to an MP2x00.
-Stephanie
http://www.felesmagus.com/newton/
>
> Well, According to Stephanie's site:
> http://www.felesmagus.com/newton/ematefast.html
> the emate, in it's native state, runs at 20Mhz and
> when she acellerated it, it runs at 27.1Mhz. The 2xxx
> runs nativly at 162Mhz, and acellerated it runs at
> 219Mhz. Through experimentation, it was determined
> that a 5Mhz crystal is basically the fastest that the
> Newt's can safely handle. Any faster and it was found
> that "most" Newts locked up. Sometimes some Newts
> could handle faster acelleration, but at the risk of
> loss of data...in my opinion, not really worth it...
>
> And what makes this all the more frustrating is the
> seeming lack of 5Mhz crystals. We've also experimented
> and found that crystal size (within bounds of reason)
> makes no difference with the Newt.
> On my site:
> http://newton.tek-ed.com/newtspeed/
> I have a little blurb I found in identifying the
> different types of crystals and how they work.
>
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
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