[Oberon] Pepino, a new FPGA board for Oberon RISC

[Magnus Karlsson]

Dear Oberoners,

I'd like to announce Pepino, an entry-level FPGA development board based
on Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, by Saanlima Electronics.

The board is specifically designed to run the FPGA-based 32-bit RISC computer
which is described in the 2013 edition of Project Oberon by Niklaus Wirth
and Juerg Gutknecht, including 32-bit wide fast SRAM that typically don't
exist on other FPGA development boards.

Other features includes a large flash memory chip (16 MB) that can be used to
hold several sets of configuration bitfiles (multi-boot) or any type of user
data like programs, images etc., and an on-board USB-to-serial converter that
makes it simple to connect to board to a computer.  The board also have a
built-in JTAG programmer and is recognized and supported by Xilinx development
tools (iMPACT, ChipScope, SDK etc.) as well as several third-party JTAG
programming software tools without the need for an external (and expensive) JTAG
programmer.  The board is shipped with Oberon RISC bitfile installed in flash and
is ready to boot from an sd-card with an Oberon image (sd-card not included).

The cost of the board starts at $99.95 for the LX9/1MB version and is available
in the Saanlima store (http://saanlima.com/)

See the links below for details.
http://pepino.saanlima.com/
http://projectoberon.com/
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/

Cheers,
Magnus Karlsson
Saanlima Electronics
www.saanlima.com