Re: [colorforth] ForthBox and FPGA (was: Ideas)

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:

> On Monday 01 March 2004 12:08 pm, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
> > I wonder why you aren't thinking of a FPGA based solution like you
> > mentioned in another thread? Don't let the high prices of development
> > kits discourage you: I build a board with the same functionality as a
> > nice $280 kit from Xess and it only cost me $30. This board started
> > life as a ColorForth computer, though now it is a Smalltalk machine.
>
> Because, well, it's expensive.  How did you pull off a $250 savings?  For
> me program an FPGA chip, I need the programming and simulation software
> to do it with.  That requires Windows.  There is not a single VHDL or
> Verilog simulation tool available for Linux that is in any way usable (I
> know, I tried).

How feasible is it to design your own tools? Chuck has of course done this
OKAD.

I've used the Xilinx tools on Windows, but was not too impressed at the
time. Plus, if I remember right some of job of software is compile
abstract specifications in VHDL. Could the FPGA be succefully addressed
at a lower level?

If this completely off-base, please ingore it, I don't spend too much time
with hardware design.

Mark

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