PicoBlaze computer

Ok fine, I'll make a serious response. Is there a particular reason you are hung up on PicoBlaze? As opposed to something much more readily accessible like an Arduino or literally any other programmable microcontroller? Is it because your goal is to make a PicoBlaze simulator? Or is there a larger goal here?

Yes, my goal is to make an easy-to-use PicoBlaze Simulator. There are many good Arduino simulators out there, and I will not make yet another one, because it would be unlikely that my work comes useful to anybody.

Quote from: FlatAssembler on February 26, 2022, 12:21:13 AM

Quote from: JimmyTheCrab on February 25, 2022, 02:12:41 AM

Fucking Professional Golfers' Association?

No, FPGA is "Field-programmable gate array"

Oh, my bad.  You can see where my confusion arose.

Nope, I do not see where the confusion arose.

Quote from: boydster on March 02, 2022, 01:01:55 PM

Ok fine, I'll make a serious response. Is there a particular reason you are hung up on PicoBlaze? As opposed to something much more readily accessible like an Arduino or literally any other programmable microcontroller? Is it because your goal is to make a PicoBlaze simulator? Or is there a larger goal here?

Yes, my goal is to make an easy-to-use PicoBlaze Simulator. There are many good Arduino simulators out there, and I will not make yet another one, because it would be unlikely that my work comes useful to anybody.

Are the ones that already exist not easy-to-use?

If I don't have access to one, how can I be sure it exists?

Because I used to have access to one, during laboratory excercises in the Computer Architecture course. And, furthermore, there are all kinds of small computers out there, so PicoBlaze existing does not seem like an extraordinary statement.

Quote from: FlatAssembler on March 02, 2022, 11:25:01 PM

Quote from: boydster on March 02, 2022, 01:01:55 PM

Ok fine, I'll make a serious response. Is there a particular reason you are hung up on PicoBlaze? As opposed to something much more readily accessible like an Arduino or literally any other programmable microcontroller? Is it because your goal is to make a PicoBlaze simulator? Or is there a larger goal here?

Yes, my goal is to make an easy-to-use PicoBlaze Simulator. There are many good Arduino simulators out there, and I will not make yet another one, because it would be unlikely that my work comes useful to anybody.

Are the ones that already exist not easy-to-use?

No, because they need to be installed. My PicoBlaze Simulator can run directly in a browser, no need to install anything on your computer.

I do see a number of PicoBlaze simulators out there.

Perhaps look at their code for an overview of what they are doing?

https://github.com/sc0ty/picoblaze

I'm assuming you want to simulate the workings of the CPU, not the underlying FPGA architecture which would be a totally different level of complexity.

I do see a number of PicoBlaze simulators out there.

Perhaps look at their code for an overview of what they are doing?

https://github.com/sc0ty/picoblaze

I'm assuming you want to simulate the workings of the CPU, not the underlying FPGA architecture which would be a totally different level of complexity.

Yeah, I am not simulating the underlying FPGA structure. You can see exactly how my simulator works here: https://flatassembler.github.io/PicoBlaze/simulator.js