[Oberon] The Oberon PC

[Andreas Baumann]

Hello Markus,



> The ideal thing would be one single 1 FPGA, but for the first try 1 
> FPGA, 2 FTDI or Cypress USB interfaces, and a little bit SRAM + a WizNet 
> chip for Ethernet or a WLAN chip for the network would be ok.

I think using a WizNet chip for Ethernet is a good idea related to the amount of work which could be invested in higher level implementation tasks.
I also thought about that related to some experiments with Cortex M3 systems using the astrobe  oberon compiler.


> So we should alway keep in mind and point out, that we can reconfigure 
> the complete computer by software: color instead of b/w, 2 RISC5 
> machines, FPU, RAM and/or file system encryption, flat display 
> interface, software defined radio (!) etc.

Thats the really most interesting part for me.
IO interfaces which goes beyond normal PC interfaces are also important for me and I think this make it possible to acquire users from the maker scene.


Regards

Andreas



Am 10.05.2014 um 16:37 schrieb greim <greim at schleibinger.com>:

> Hallo Volker, Dug and others..
> 
>>> 
>>> Stepping way back, here is what I would like to have.
>>> I would like to be able to walk into a store and buy a
>>> PC that was solely Oberon based.  Cheap, fast, module
>>> upgrades (e.g. slim binaries).
>>> 
> 
> 
> With FPGAOberon its not a dream at all.
> 
> Imagine a small stick / matchbox, 2 USB ports for the keyboard and the 
> mouse, one DVI port (HDMI is difficult regarding the license) and one SD 
> card slot and one Ethernet port.
> The ideal thing would be one single 1 FPGA, but for the first try 1 
> FPGA, 2 FTDI or Cypress USB interfaces, and a little bit SRAM + a WizNet 
> chip for Ethernet or a WLAN chip for the network would be ok.
> 
> For Android and Linux such gadgets are already on the market.
> 
> So we should alway keep in mind and point out, that we can reconfigure 
> the complete computer by software: color instead of b/w, 2 RISC5 
> machines, FPU, RAM and/or file system encryption, flat display 
> interface, software defined radio (!) etc.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Markus Greim
> 
> 
> 
> 
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