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:[email protected]] Sent: 22 September 2023 23:53 To: ben via cctalk <[email protected]> Cc: Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> 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
