An interesting tidbit on PIC32MZ DA (and Sitara AM1808 on that matter)

[technix]

PIC32MZ DA can run both 24-bit color graphics and have a 8-bit parallel slave port at the same time. This seem to me as if a calling for me to use that chip as a GPU of sort for some other board...

TI's Sitara AM1808 can do the same too...

[legacy]

I wonder who will ever use it and for what.

[technix]

I wonder who will ever use it and for what.

The PIC32 one is more limited as it only exposes 4 bytes to the external bus interface when used in parallel slave mode. The Sitara exposes a whole block of RAM for that.

Some ideas came to mind:

* A graphics processor for some retrocomputing project.
* An I/O coprocessor for a modern PC, combined with the WCH PCIe to parallel interface chip.
* A heterogeneous multiprocessing system.

[JPortici]

- A low cost industrial smart display, possibly with extended temperature range in the future (AFAIK all the temperature related issues are related to the onboard DDR)

[technix]

- A low cost industrial smart display, possibly with extended temperature range in the future (AFAIK all the temperature related issues are related to the onboard DDR)

And since that bus is somewhat compatible with the 8-bit ISA bus, it would be useful for some older systems too as a multifunction interface card.

[legacy]

I reserve some doubt, but let's wait and see what will happen in the near future