Oberon Operating System + Compiler + Graphic on a Spartan 3

[MGreim]

Hi folks,

Professor Wirth, some may know his name as the inventor of Pascal an
Oberon etc., has published recently, together with JĂźrg Gutknecht and Pau
Reed, an exciting project at:

http://www.projectoberon.com/

Its a complete computer including a graphical operating system in a smal
FPGA.
Its including all sources in Oberon and Verilog!
The complete Oberon Code has less then 10000 lines, including th
Compiler!
The team has also developed his own RISC processor design, called RISC5.
Its running on a Spartan 3 eval. board.
I have tested it, an it really works! A picture of my personal system at:
http://www.schleibinger.com/bilder/oberon.jpg

Regards

Markus






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[rupertlssmith@googlemail.]

On Sunday, March 2, 2014 1:51:06 PM UTC, MGreim wrote:

http://www.projectoberon.com/
Its a complete computer including a graphical operating system in a small
FPGA.

Very cool. What is the daughter board for? If its just PS/2 mouse and SD card connector, I have some more sophisticated Xilinx eval boards with those already on them. It might not be too hard to get it running on one of them.

Rupert

 

[Robert F. Jarnot]

If you manage to get this running on a more modern Xilinx Eval board,
please let us know -- I would love to try it out. Everything that I
have every seen from Niklaus Wirth has been excellent.

On 03/05/2014 01:04 AM, rupertlssmith@googlemail.com wrote:

On Sunday, March 2, 2014 1:51:06 PM UTC, MGreim wrote:
http://www.projectoberon.com/
Its a complete computer including a graphical operating system in a small
FPGA.

Very cool. What is the daughter board for? If its just PS/2 mouse and SD card connector, I have some more sophisticated Xilinx eval boards with those already on them. It might not be too hard to get it running on one of them.

Rupert

 

[MGreim]

If you manage to get this running on a more modern Xilinx Eval board,
please let us know -- I would love to try it out. Everything that I
have every seen from Niklaus Wirth has been excellent.

On 03/05/2014 01:04 AM, rupertlssmith@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 1:51:06 PM UTC, MGreim wrote:
http://www.projectoberon.com/
Its a complete computer including a graphical operating system in
small
FPGA.

Very cool. What is the daughter board for? If its just PS/2 mouse and S

card connector, I have some more sophisticated Xilinx eval boards wit
those already on them. It might not be too hard to get it running on one o
them.

Rupert

Rupert,
yes the daugtherboard has only a connector for the Mouse and a SD car
holder with a SD for the file system.

Markus

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On Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 9:19:53 AM UTC+10:30, Robert F. Jarnot wrote:

If you manage to get this running on a more modern Xilinx Eval board,
please let us know -- I would love to try it out. Everything that I
have every seen from Niklaus Wirth has been excellent.

It has now been ported to a Pipistrello Spartan 6 board by Saanlima Electronics. See the Project Oberon forum discussion at:

http://saanlima.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1246

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com