23 Mar
2004
23 Mar
'04
10:19 a.m.
ben franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
Umm stupid question. Can you run the development and
bootstrap software
on a vax?
By development software I assume you mean the tools for working with Verilog
(simulation and synthesis), right? I'm using the open source Icarus Verilog and
it can run on anything, though since it's written in Anshit C I'm forced to use
gcc rather than native cc. I guess if necessary it can be run through
unprotoize and thus made truly portable.
Not sure what you mean by bootstrap software, if you mean things like VMB,
that's written in VAX macrocode and runs on the VAX, so I don't see where the
problem is.
I'll also have a real console FEP to implement the functions of Chapter 10 of
the VAX spec (lacking the real STD 032 I use the chapter and section numbering
from VARM 2nd ed.), for which I will use some 8 or
16-bit microprocessor of the
appropriate time period. Fortunately there are
8/16-bit microprocessors that
existed at the time of VAX-11/7xx and are still made (Z80 and 8086 come to
mind).
MS