I was excited when I first ran across that project on Crowd Supply, but for $42 you can buy multiples of all 3 processors. The advantage of using physical chips is they have the pinouts that have been used for decades and are well documented in hundreds of designs.
If you’re going to use an FPGA why only include the cores, what about peripherals? And if you’re synthesizing all that, how much better is it than just emulating the entire legacy system on ARM or x86? You say it’s those entire microcomputers on a chip, but isn’t it just the CPUs?
I’m not opposed to it, just looking to understand the motivation behind Retro-uC better.
Recently I ordered a set of 68k chips to build my own homebrew system, so I totally get building something that isn’t practical, where the journey is the destination.
If you’re going to use an FPGA why only include the cores, what about peripherals? And if you’re synthesizing all that, how much better is it than just emulating the entire legacy system on ARM or x86? You say it’s those entire microcomputers on a chip, but isn’t it just the CPUs?
I’m not opposed to it, just looking to understand the motivation behind Retro-uC better.
Recently I ordered a set of 68k chips to build my own homebrew system, so I totally get building something that isn’t practical, where the journey is the destination.