Oberon Operating System + Compiler + Graphic on a Spartan 3 FPGA

Hi folks,

Professor Wirth, some may know his name as the inventor of Pascal and
Oberon etc., has published recently, together with Jürg Gutknecht and Paul
Reed,  an exciting project at:

http://www.projectoberon.com/

Its a complete computer including a graphical operating system in a small
FPGA. 
Its including all sources in Oberon and Verilog!
The complete Oberon Code has less then 10000 lines, including the
Compiler!
The team has also developed his own RISC processor design, called RISC5. 
Its running on a Spartan 3 eval. board. 
I have tested it, an it really works! A picture of my personal system at: 
http://www.schleibinger.com/bilder/oberon.jpg

Regards

Markus




	   
					
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On Sunday, March 2, 2014 1:51:06 PM UTC, MGreim wrote:
> http://www.projectoberon.com/
> Its a complete computer including a graphical operating system in a small
> FPGA. 

Very cool. What is the daughter board for? If its just PS/2 mouse and SD card connector, I have some more sophisticated Xilinx eval boards with those already on them. It might not be too hard to get it running on one of them.

Rupert

If you manage to get this running on a more modern Xilinx Eval board, 
please let us know -- I would love to try it out.  Everything that I 
have every seen from Niklaus Wirth has been excellent.

On 03/05/2014 01:04 AM, rupertlssmith@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, March 2, 2014 1:51:06 PM UTC, MGreim wrote:
>> http://www.projectoberon.com/
>> Its a complete computer including a graphical operating system in a small
>> FPGA.
>
> Very cool. What is the daughter board for? If its just PS/2 mouse and SD card connector, I have some more sophisticated Xilinx eval boards with those already on them. It might not be too hard to get it running on one of them.
>
> Rupert
>

>If you manage to get this running on a more modern Xilinx Eval board, 
>please let us know -- I would love to try it out.  Everything that I 
>have every seen from Niklaus Wirth has been excellent.
>
>On 03/05/2014 01:04 AM, rupertlssmith@googlemail.com wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 2, 2014 1:51:06 PM UTC, MGreim wrote:
>>> http://www.projectoberon.com/
>>> Its a complete computer including a graphical operating system in a
small
>>> FPGA.
>>
>> Very cool. What is the daughter board for? If its just PS/2 mouse and SD
card connector, I have some more sophisticated Xilinx eval boards with
those already on them. It might not be too hard to get it running on one of
them.
>>
>> Rupert
>>
>

Rupert,
yes the daugtherboard has only a connector for the Mouse and a SD card
holder with a SD for the file system. 

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On Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 9:19:53 AM UTC+10:30, Robert F. Jarnot wrote:
> If you manage to get this running on a more modern Xilinx Eval board, 
> please let us know -- I would love to try it out.  Everything that I 
> have every seen from Niklaus Wirth has been excellent.
> 

It has now been ported to a Pipistrello Spartan 6 board by Saanlima Electronics. See the Project Oberon forum discussion at:

http://saanlima.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1246

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com