Aristarchus
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Mar 24, 2001
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How exactly are we defining "work" here? If you're talking about dropping the clock speed to something low or sub- MHz, then yes, perhaps it would. But in so doing, you'd open up a whole new can of worms with your memory refresh rates, and whatnot all. And all in all, you'd end up with something that's more or less a glorified PIC, and many hours of your life gone.
The pins on the processor are not simple circuits like the sort of thing that runs your toaster. Even at antiquated clock speeds, those pins and traces behave as transmission lines, and you enter an entirely new realm of evilness, because the capacitive coupling between lines and ground will completely jack up the signalling process, due to latencies and crosstalk, yes, but also do to varied termination impedances. It's likely that what you're discussing will give signal paths having step responses that look like a bell at any substantial clock speed, so the device at the receiving end of the line won't have a clue as to wether it's seeing a 1 or a 0. If you want to try it, I'd use something built before PCI slots were invented. Also, please do understand that this will take up a hell of a lot of time, and most likely give a mediocre result at best. So if you want to do it, more power to ya, and don't grab the iron by the wrong end.
Oh, and have fun, eh.
The pins on the processor are not simple circuits like the sort of thing that runs your toaster. Even at antiquated clock speeds, those pins and traces behave as transmission lines, and you enter an entirely new realm of evilness, because the capacitive coupling between lines and ground will completely jack up the signalling process, due to latencies and crosstalk, yes, but also do to varied termination impedances. It's likely that what you're discussing will give signal paths having step responses that look like a bell at any substantial clock speed, so the device at the receiving end of the line won't have a clue as to wether it's seeing a 1 or a 0. If you want to try it, I'd use something built before PCI slots were invented. Also, please do understand that this will take up a hell of a lot of time, and most likely give a mediocre result at best. So if you want to do it, more power to ya, and don't grab the iron by the wrong end.
Oh, and have fun, eh.