[Oberon] FPGA Oberon some news and a reply to F.P.

[Frans-Pieter Vonck]

>So, I think, if FPGAOberon is
> generic and not much dependent on specialties of Spartan 3, we should
> immediately make/port our FPGAOberon on/to a latest board.

I thought that hardware independence was the whole idea of Wirth behind
using an hdl as the basis for FPGAOberon (compiler
, system).
To me it seems an an attractive idea.
For instance, the oberon compiler for the lpc2000 processors is no longer
supported. (I just threw my three embedded artists boards in the garbage
bin.)

My understanding is that  if someone writes a driver, for instance an
rs232 , in an hdl language, the driver is portable to every fpga
processor.

But I could be wrong.

Greets,
F.P.









> Dear All,
>
>
>  > With the risk that an FPGA board maker halts production of the one
> board
>  > that the project is based on.
>
> I feel sad that Spartan 3 is becoming obsolete. So, I think, if FPGAOberon
> is
> generic and not much dependent on specialties of Spartan 3, we should
> immediately make/port our FPGAOberon on/to a latest board.
>
>
> With thanks and best regards,
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
>
> Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
> Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/
>
> On 03/04/2014 03:04 PM, Jan Verhoeven wrote:
>> That's why I am still in doubt: why shell out an extra 200 eucks on FPGA
>> gear, no matter how useful it may be for my education and ego? With the
>> risk that an FPGA board maker halts production of the one board that the
>> project is based on.
>
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