not quite what you asked, but... apart from their size, one advantage of FPGAs and Arduino & ESP32 microprocessors over purpose CPUs is providing deterministic real-time latency (i.e. sensor inputs controlling motors). For that domain a strong contender in a Pi-like format is the Programmable Realtime Unit of the BeagleBone Black. http://beagleboard.org/pru
40x faster response time than the main CPU of BeagleBone (and Pi). See slide 11... https://elinux.org/images/1/1c/Birkett--enhancing_rt_capabilities_with_the_pru.pdf cheers -ben On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 22:32, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: > I’m trying to collect information about programming in pharo for FPGA. The > only things I found are around PharoROS like this [1]. If anyone has more > information or is willing to talk about I’m open ears. > > The background is that we did little things with the PharoThings toolkit > and want to research which other combinations like Arduino, ESP32, FPGAs > are there to be a good extensions to a Pi. > > Any hint is welcomed! > > Thanks, > > Norbert > > [1] > http://esug.org/data/ESUG2014/IWST/Papers/iwst2014_From%20Smalltalk%20to%20Silicon_Towards%20a%20methodology%20to%20turn%20Smalltalk%20code%20into%20FPGA.pdf >
