A new low-cost Oberon for RISC5 FPGA development board
Applications have been written in Oberon to run on FPGA hardware using the new low-cost (EUR 50) Olimex GateMateA1-EVB open-source development board: https://www.olimex.com/Products/FPGA/GateMate/GateMateA1-EVB/open-source-har... Not only is this board designed AND manufactured in Europe, the Cologne Chip GateMate FPGA device that it uses is also designed AND produced in Europe: https://www.colognechip.com/programmable-logic/gatemate/ Also remarkable is that the Verilog tools used to build the GateMate FPGA bitstreams are 1/10th the size of the previous Verilog tools we used (500 Mbytes vs. 10 Gbytes) and result in RISC5 Verilog build times that are approximately 10 time faster (1 minute vs. 10 minutes): https://github.com/YosysHQ/oss-cad-suite-build The Astrobe for RISC5 FPGA Oberon development system is an embedded software system comparable to Astrobe for Cortex-M / RP2xxx. i.e. Standalone RISC5 Oberon applications are compiled and statically linked on a PC. They are then uploaded via a serial link to the Olimex development board where they run independently of an operating system. For more information see: https://www.astrobe.com/RISC5 The free Astrobe for RISC5 software targeting the GateMate FPGA is curently undergoing final testing. A pre-release version is planned before the end of this month. Register your contact details if you want to get your hands on a copy as soon as it is available: https://www.astrobe.com/RISC5/register.htm -- Regards, Chris Burrows CFB Software https://www.astrobe.com/
The free Astrobe for RISC5 software targeting the GateMate FPGA has now been released. The list of enhancements and clarifications <https://www.astrobe.com/RISC5/differences.htm> highlights the features of the implementation of the Oberon language in Astrobe for RISC5 compared with the implementation of Oberon in Project Oberon 2013. Register your contact details and you will be sent an email with instructions on how to download and install the software. https://www.astrobe.com/RISC5/register.htm -- Regards, Chris Burrows CFB Software https://www.astrobe.com/
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