Python-on-a-chip

Re:Python-on-a-chip by sliverstorm on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @10:39PM (#1418992)

"Requires roughly 40 KB program memory and initializes in under 3 KB of RAM"

Maybe I'm just not 'with it', but last microcontroller I used had 64KB of address space. 43KB overhead seems like a lot.

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Re:Python-on-a-chip by xkenneth86 on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @10:51PM (#1419005)

Well, there are a ton of Micro's today that can easily support that and there a ton that aren't. We work with high temperature microcontrollers so our devices end up having about 32k flash and about 8k ram.

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Re:Python-on-a-chip by pietrofmaggi on Thursday June 10, 2010 @06:44AM (#1419628)

In the microcontroller family you can put a lot of different devices. The board they target with this project is based on a NXP Cortex-M3 chip with 512KB of Flash and 64KB of RAM: http://mbed.org//nxp/lpc1768/technical-reference/

The other target, STM32, is a similar Cortex-M3 microcontroller.

Want to use something different than C with a smaller footprint? you can always play with forth ^__^ for example an MSP430 (TI 16bit) port of CamelForth, should be usable with any MSP430 device having at least 512 bytes of RAM, 8K of ROM, and one USART. www.camelforth.com

It's fun and it doesn't hurt too much ;-)

Regards Pietro

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