[Oberon] MIPS as an alternative?

skulski at pas.rochester.edu skulski at pas.rochester.edu
Sun Nov 2 15:40:32 CET 2014


Chris:

> A MIPS core that runs on the same Digilent Spartan 3 Starter board used
> for RISC5 Project Oberon is available: [Plasma CPU on Open Cores].
>
> It is stated to be a "clean room" implementation. In the "Avoiding
> limitations" section it does refer to operations that were the subject of
> a 1986 patent.

They say that the patent expired in 2006. This is good. Now, who is going
to take care of the OP2 compiler for this soft CPU?

Wojtek




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