I was thinking more of Industrial systems VS. Gadgetry & Robotics projects.
No problems. Getting support for the M0 will be important long term is what I am saying. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Thomas Daede <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I would rather see Atmel AVR or ARM Cortex M0 as targets. > > > > Also, would low voltage, low power 8-bit targets with under 512KB ram be > > impossible ? > > > > Where are you finding 8-bit targets with 512KB ram? Generally they > have 8K or less. The highest end device I plan to work on only has > 192KB of RAM. > > ARM Cortex-M0 is very similar to Cortex-M4 - it's a subset of ARMv6 > rather than ARMv7 technically, so it needs different compiler options > to LLVM, but I would like to support it too. It's easier to develop on > the M4 though, just because of the RAM - ST sells a devkit for $15 > that includes a processor with 1MB of Flash and 192KB of SRAM. Once I > get it working there, I'll probably add support for the M3 and M0/M0+ > too. > > AVR doesn't have a LLVM backend, nor do I think one would be > worthwhile, when vendors like NXP are selling Cortex-M0 chips for > under $1.00. The ARM NVIC is also a lot nicer and it should be > relatively easy to implement interrupt routines in pure Rust (with a C > method signature) > -- -Thad http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry
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