On 10 Dec 2008 at 19:24, Tony Duell wrote:
From the
discussion fo the AVR and PIC microcontorllers, it appears that
should I wish to
program them using an HP9816, or a PERQ, or a PDP11,
or... then the information is available to do so. I can write a
cross-assembler, debugger, downloader, etc. You may feel that's not a
sensible use of my time, byt darn it this is a hobby, and it is very
difficult to justify time spent on hobbies _other than 'you enjoy doing
it'.
Given the simplicity of the AVR and PIC tools, you could easily host
a development system on a 8080, Z80, 6502, etc.-based system,
provided that you had the necessary (e.g. parallel port) interface.
I've not seen any Z80-based VHDL compilers, but then, maybe I'm not
looking hard enough. :)
Cheers,
Chuck