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Re:The J1 Forth CPU by UncleOxidant on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:22PM (#25765141)
Will the non-simplified J1 fit/run in a larger iCE40 FPGA?
Re:The J1 Forth CPU by avhon1 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:36PM (#25766160)
Probably not.

iCE40 FPGAs come with up to 7,680 logic cells.

The J1 was designed for a board with a Xilinx XC3S1000, which has 17,280 logic cells.

Re:The J1 Forth CPU by sitkack on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:39PM (#25766958)
There are RISC-V cores that fit in about 1k luts. One could build a NoC of RISC-V using an XCS1000.
Re:The J1 Forth CPU by UncleOxidant on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:51PM (#25769094)
This is probably because the RAM is internal to the FPGA:

> A complete J1 with 16Kbytes of RAM fits easily on a small Xilinx FPGA.

I'd guess the CPU itself would easily fit into an iCE40 (given that RISC-Vs are fitting and the J1 should be simpler) with the RAM external. Several of the iCE40 boards have external RAMs

Re:The J1 Forth CPU by kelu124 on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:58AM (#25788559)
Even the iCE UP5K has a whopping internal 1Mb RAM.