On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:23:32PM -0500, Sanjay Singh wrote: >Is this ARM kit somehow tied to an FPGA? As I understand ARM its a kind >of MMU-less embedded processor. You can run operating systems on it, but >only ones suitable for embedded applications.
Depends on the particular ARM family. Any of the modern versions have regular MMU's, caches, and are roughly as powerful as a desktop PC of say, maybe 10 years ago. There are several Linux distributions that run on these ARM CPUs, and there is a GNAT ARM Linux port. However, even a new-enough dev-kit design to have an MMU probably doesn't have enough RAM or storage to host a compiler itself, and in any case, there isn't much point, since it's going to be rediculously slow. But, there are FPGA boards that are cheaper than most of the ARM dev-kits. David _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
