[cctalk] Re: Good C to FPGA/PLA compiler

Chuck, Your point is wholly valid, although the core will run more at 1 GHz than 200 MHz. The UniBone http://retrocmp.com/projects/unibone is a UniBus board capable of monitoring the unibus and of emulating CPU / rotating rust / memory / ... With the bulk of the logic in c on an Arm Processor. Jay Jaeger has just elaborated the UniBone's essentials. Martin -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Guzis via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: 22 September 2023 23:53 To: ben via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Cc: Chuck Guzis <cclist(a)sydex.com> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Good C to FPGA/PLA compiler Stupid question, I know, but someone has to ask it. Is there some overwhelming reason that the FPGA and associated logic couldn't be subsumed into an inexpensive 32-bit MCU running at, oh, 200 MHz? I can't believe that a PDP8 is all that fast... --Chuck