From: "Dave Caroline" <dave.thearchivist
at gmail.com>
FPGA designs
Which reminds me back in 1987 or so I bought a NX4 single board
computer that ran Forth was that a FPGA design? it had a Mostek
MKGD02TG as far as I can make out from the picture. It failed some
years ago when I last had a play with it.
Dave Caroline
pic at
www.archivist.info/computers/nx4.jpg
Hi
There were several Forth implementations during that time.
After the NC4000 was created, many realized how easy it was
to create a Forth processor with the newer technology in
ASIC or programmable arrays.
I wonder what has failed on your board. If it isn't the chip,
the rest of the board is relatively standard parts.
These Forth board were often used as accelerators for PC
systems. Several test that showed that these simple processors
could run application more than 10 times faster than
similar clocked x86 or 68K machines of the time.
The RTX2000's were made RAD hardened and used quite a
bit in satellites.
Much of the speed was because Forth lends it self to a 3 bus
architectures that functionally used at least two of these buss
on each instruction.
Dwight
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