This is very blue-sky, but it would be an interesting enhancement to
Lazarus to target ARM or Atmel AVR CPUs in the manner of the Processing
language/IDE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_%28programming_language%29
It's how you create software for the Arduino boards that are so popular
here in the US. I started out in embedded processors, and I can program
in C-like languages, but they make me itch. Pascal would be better.
--73--
--JD--
Michael Schnell wrote:
IMHO, nowadays, 8 (and 16) bit processors only make sense for very
small projects. Those are very hardware specific and thus using C here
does make sense.
OTOH, 32 bit processors have become very cheap and handy. For embedded
projects, IMHO, especially processors that are programmed as
"ip-Cores" in FPGAs are very interesting, so that porting the FP
compiler could make sense. I am considering to do this port for the
NIOS CPU (that runs in Altera FPGAs). I don't intend to start that
project very soon, but if someone is interested in starting the port,
I of course will try to help.
-Michael
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