[Oberon] Oberon FPGA hardware point of view

Jan de Kruyf jan.de.kruyf at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 15:15:29 CEST 2018


Thats the spirit, you could have landed in a worse place.

j.


On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 19:48, Jan de Kruyf <jan.de.kruyf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > But modern embedded controllers can be 64-bit RISC chips with a few
> > > gig of RAM. They are not your grandad's AVR Atmegas.
> >
> > I like that statement!
> >
> > And shortly we will have 128-bitters with many gigs of RAM and we will
> still be programming them. AND also in Ada.
> >
> > But in all seriousness Liam. I do not mean to offend you. It is just
> that I found that on the present job the AVR - Ada combination reduces my
> foot print / cost by 75 % (roughly) with the same throughput as a "modern"
> embedded solution.
> >
> > Enjoy C++
>
> I'm very glad to hear it.
>
> And please don't take me as a C/C++/etc. enthusiast or advocate. In
> fact, the reverse is true. Thus my interest in Oberon!
>
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