picoblaze C compiler download wanted

I was hoping to download Francesco Poderico's Picoblaze C compiler
today, but unfortunately his domain is expired.  Google didn't
turn up any other sites from which I can download it; does anyone
know of such a location, or would anyone be willing to make it
available online or send me a copy?  (Provided that doing so
doesn't violate any license terms.)

Thanks!
Eric

Eric Smith wrote:
> I was hoping to download Francesco Poderico's Picoblaze C compiler
> today, but unfortunately his domain is expired.  Google didn't
> turn up any other sites from which I can download it; does anyone
> know of such a location, or would anyone be willing to make it
> available online or send me a copy?  (Provided that doing so
> doesn't violate any license terms.)

Shouldn't this be something Xilinx should sponser ?
Seems a shame a tool like this vanishes, for want of
a liltte infrastructure ?

Or, I suppose Lattice could be interested in a Mico8 variant of this
compiler, as they are quite similar cores, and Lattice are
proven open-source friendly ?

-jg.

Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com> wrote:

>I was hoping to download Francesco Poderico's Picoblaze C compiler
>today, but unfortunately his domain is expired.  Google didn't
>turn up any other sites from which I can download it; does anyone
>know of such a location, or would anyone be willing to make it
>available online or send me a copy?  (Provided that doing so
>doesn't violate any license terms.)

Are you sure you want to use that compiler? Last time I checked it
didn't seem very usefull (no optimisations at all). You're probably
better of writing your program in assembly language.

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On Apr 14, 7:17 am, n...@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote:
> Are you sure you want to use that compiler? Last time I checked it
> didn't seem very usefull (no optimisations at all). You're probably
> better of writing your program in assembly language.

For nearly 30 years there have been various C compilers for small
micro's, ever since Ron Cain knocked off the Small-C compiler for the
8080 with a little help from me (a free SRI International PDP-11 unix
account as long as the compiler was public domain). These compilers do
not need to be perfect, or even great, just correct, to quickly knock
off projects that would take weeks in assembler. For most, careful
coding will get your project 95% of the way toward good/excellent
performance, with a small amount of asm functions and tweeking at the
end to meet timing goals.

For a tiny PB PLD project, it might not be practical ... for a larger
PB Spartan project, it might be the only quick prototyping choice that
makes sense, from early concept to production.

Nico Coesel wrote:
> Are you sure you want to use that compiler?

I wanted to give it a try for use writing quick-and-dirty
test programs.  It's probably fine for that.

Eric

Symon wrote:
> Google is your friend.
> http://www.asm.ro/fpga/

Thanks!  Google definitely is my friend, but somehow I didn't spot that
one in the search results.

We're talking about the picoblaze here....the program space isn't
large
enough for ANYTHING to take weeks to write....  if it takes more than
two
hours to run out of program memory, you type too slow!



On Apr 14, 12:35 pm, fpga_t...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Apr 14, 7:17 am, n...@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote:
>
> > Are you sure you want to use that compiler? Last time I checked it
> > didn't seem very usefull (no optimisations at all). You're probably
> > better of writing your program in assembly language.
>
> For nearly 30 years there have been various C compilers for small
> micro's, ever since Ron Cain knocked off the Small-C compiler for the
> 8080 with a little help from me (a free SRI International PDP-11 unix
> account as long as the compiler was public domain). These compilers do
> not need to be perfect, or even great, just correct, to quickly knock
> off projects that would take weeks in assembler. For most, careful
> coding will get your project 95% of the way toward good/excellent
> performance, with a small amount of asm functions and tweeking at the
> end to meet timing goals.
>
> For a tiny PB PLD project, it might not be practical ... for a larger
> PB Spartan project, it might be the only quick prototyping choice that
> makes sense, from early concept to production.

On Apr 16, 6:43 am, "Paul" <pauljbenn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're talking about the picoblaze here....the program space isn't
> large
> enough for ANYTHING to take weeks to write....  if it takes more than
> two
> hours to run out of program memory, you type too slow!

Test and debug in a HLL on another platform is frequently a LOT faster
than steping PB thru a simulator debugging your asm.

ditto for long term maintainability by a broader spectrum of engineers.

On 13 Apr, 23:35, Eric Smith <e...@brouhaha.com> wrote:
> I was hoping to download Francesco Poderico's Picoblaze C compiler
> today, but unfortunately his domain is expired.  Google didn't
> turn up any other sites from which I can download it; does anyone
> know of such a location, or would anyone be willing to make it
> available online or send me a copy?  (Provided that doing so
> doesn't violate any license terms.)
>
> Thanks!
> Eric

Hi,
I'm Francesco Poderico.
I'm  trying to move my domain from my old provider to a newone (cheap)
Don't know why ... but this operation seems impossible because my
hosting has expired before I ask to transfer my domain???

So if you need any help/latest version of the compiler please contact
me at francesco_poderico@yahoo.com
If in one week time from today (26/4/2007) I still did not manage ro
transfer my domain then I will create a new domain.

Regards,
Francesco