I didn't mean to imply RP2040 will destroy all its competition.

And ESP32 is a flavor of ARM.

Pete


May 19, 2021 10:55:05 AM Josh Wyatt <[email protected]>:

> Waaaaaaaaay too late to the party; the ESP32 has been out for a couple of 
> years now and blows this thing away (dual 240mhz cores, 520K RAM, 448K ROM, 
> configurable flash, long-standing Arduino IDE support...). And you can get 
> three delivered to your door by Friday for less than $24.
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/ESP-WROOM-32-Development-Microcontroller-Integrated-Compatible/dp/B08D5ZD528/
> 
> I get that folks love ARM though!
> -j
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:56 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> For those wanting to have a full collection of PR2040 boards, here's the 
>> Arduino Nano RP2040 
>> Connect[https://www.tomshardware.com/news/arduino-nano-rp2040-released] with 
>> WIFI and Bluetooth from the Arduino folks. Tom's sez complete IDE support 
>> from Arduino with old and new regular IDE versions and their cloud-based IDE.
>> 
>> One project I want to get around to some day for the PR2040 is a structured 
>> macro assembler. This boils down to a relatively trivial parser for the 
>> vanilla assembly language with recognition of some simple macros that do 
>> /if-then-else/, /while/, etc for the basic structured programming construct 
>> collection à la  Dijkstra[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra]. 
>> with his seminal 1972 book written with Dahl and 
>> Hoare[https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/structured-programming_car-hoare_o-j-dahl/331974/item/44698853/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7pKFBhDUARIsAFUoMDZkRcyYWeGI3CG7IU9JrrMPiXo30HaTqCU1-DosM3xxBWPb-4e1H_YaAgGYEALw_wcB#idiq=44698853&edition=2051476].
>>   There is a very nice structured macro assembler out there for the Moto 68K 
>> and the source code for that would probably be a good starting point. If 
>> anybody else is interested in this let me know so we can coordinate a little 
>> project. Starting with the TI MSP430 I swore I'd get back to assembly 
>> language after a 20+ year hiatus, but there was always something more 
>> important and it is the case that assembler is mighty hard to justify with 
>> today's "all computing resources are close to free" situation making C the 
>> 21st century assembly language (and Java the 21st century COBOL, HA!). But 
>> the PR2040 seems like a good target and learning the M0+ instruction set 
>> would be useful for those of us who started with assembler to get back to 
>> our roots. I'm especially interested in interprocessor lock mechanisms that 
>> would allow for some hand rolled parallel loops using the two cores, 
>> assuming the necessary atomic instructions are not too expensive. Until it's 
>> time to jump to RISC V this little chip seems to me like a wonderful, very 
>> general solution for a lot of target applications. I can't wait to jump on 
>> this after clearing a few figurative decks.
>> 
>> Pete
>> 
>> On 5/18/21 10:05 PM, Peter Soper wrote:
>>> https://www.tomshardware.com/news/arduino-nano-rp2040-released
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