9 Feb
2010
9 Feb
'10
5:57 p.m.
On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:54 PM, e.stiebler wrote:
What we need is someone to code one up in VHDL or Verilog with a
reasonable (read: easy to use for non-FPGA-gods) interface to the
outside world.
ARMs are
damn near impossible to program in assembler. That's
why everyone uses C in that world. Lots of [modern incarnation]
Z80, Z8, 8051, and low-end PIC development is done, both
professionally and otherwise, in assembler today. Since those
architectures aren't changing, and it's mainly done that way
because of the architectures, I doubt it'll ever change. It
certainly hasn't yet.
What we need is a J11/T11 chip again, so we can program MACRO11
again ;-) (I know of the rumor, that the msp430 is loved by old
pdp11 guys)
With good reason...look at the architecture! I almost got misty-
eyed when I looked at the instruction set. I hope to do more with
msp430s soon.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL