Re: TBTF for 1999-10-05: Offlist

Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:36:18 +0200 (MET DST)


Dave Long wrote:
>I may be willing to build kernels and applications, but it's unlikely
>I'd tape out and fab my own hardware. (reprogrammable gate arrays?
>anything interesting been done with those recently?)

Yes!

The ESA has just released a VHDL model under GNU GPL of a SPARC chip,
that even fits on an FPGA:

http://www.estec.esa.nl/wsmwww/leon/

Trojan, shmojan.

Rob.