[Oberon] Oberon for Cortex-M7

[Chris Burrows]

> >
> > From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> > Ken Boak
> > Sent: Monday, 18 January 2016 7:29 PM
> > To: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch
> > Subject: [Oberon] Availability of OberonStation
> >
>
> > Finally, and perhaps best addressed  to Chris Burrows - I see that
> > you have produced packages for the ARM M3 and M4 Cortex - mainly NXP.
> > Do you have any aspirations to port to Cortex M7 - such as the $50
> > STM32F7 Discovery Platform - which has a great selection of useful
> > hardware on-board?
> >
>
> The STM32F7 Discovery Platform seems to me to be more a miniature PC than
> a high-power embedded system. While we remain focused on supporting
> embedded systems we are unlikely to be targeting it,
>

One year later and with the encouragement and help from a couple of Astrobe
users we have had a change of heart. Astrobe can now be used to target the
ARM Cortex-M7 STM32F7 family: 

http://www.astrobe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=519

One of the boards we support is the STM Nucleo-144 F767ZI board. 

https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/ST-Nucleo-F767ZI/

This has a 216 MHz clock, hardware floating point, 2Mb Flash, 512K RAM,
Arduino Uno connectivity etc. etc. for less than $25! Being 'mbed enabled'
it appears as a USB drive when connect to a PC so can be programmed just by
copying the executable file to the drive.

Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com