ARM Flexible Access : design the SOC before spending money
Hi @Jeff-UK, thanks for the COBOL prod. In my opinion, as well as COBOL, my (I’m 62) generation inherited a couple of astonishing leaps of “IT” stuff. The RAND Corp. work that opened the concept of packet networks:
And the Fortran compiler to be the engineering twin of COBOL for business.
Then in the 1980s came a couple of technologies that have utterly changed our world. First the Ethernet:
Then IP networking was approved by the US Govt and military:
Rotterdam sends hyper-smart container on trip around the world
BIG BROTHER EU … 
Yep, recognise/ack some of this too…though you boys have a few years on me ! 
Remember what just happened to such lamp posts in HK …with surveillance included! 
Crazy that ’ THE EU’ want to control lampposts in every nation … they can’t be trusted, they allready have trackers AND microphones in every new car sold.
see how they avoid the word ’ AI video surveillance system ’ , they call it ’ image sensing ’ and all the gadgets aroud the camera’s are just to ‘sell’ , they want what the Chinese allready have.
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