[Oberon] Train VS all terrain truck

[Walter Gallegos]

I have the feeling that some in this list are comparing a train with an 
all terrain truck. You can cross a country by train but you can go to 
more with an all terrain truck. Of course, not the same effort and cost.

Never a FPGA microcontroller could be cheaper as an ASIC microcontroller 
or SOC. So, if you find a microcontroller or SOC that fulfil your 
specifications use it. Comparing with FPGA option, components are 
cheaper, professional tools are cheaper, good software engineers are 
more easy to find and cheaper also. Sorry, it's a reality, basic volume 
economy.

On the other side, if a project specify some features not available on 
hard-wired microcontroller, very high speed DSP for example, use a FPGA 
could be an option, but to use the FPGA you must know about FPGAs. 
Formal hardware description is not software.

Then, we arrive, again, to the question: what do you think is the 
Project Oberon niche in the actual state of technology ?

Regards,

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Walter Daniel Gallegos
Programmable Logic & Software
Consultoría, Diseño, Entrenamiento.
Montevideo, Uruguay
EMAIL walter at waltergallegos.com
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