If I remember well, smalltalkers from britany have worked on FPGA design on visualwork. I think there were Loic Lagadec, Alain Plantec and Bernard Pottier. 
https://www.ensta-bretagne.fr/lagadec/



Maybe they can help here ;-)

Cheers,

Cedrick

Le 10 mars 2019 �� 01:38, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> a ��crit :

not quite what you asked, but... apart from their size, one advantage of FPGAs and Arduino & ESP32 microprocessors 
over purpose CPUs is providing deterministic real-time latency (i.e. sensor inputs controlling motors).
For that domain a strong contender in a Pi-like format is the Programmable Realtime Unit of the BeagleBone Black.

40x faster response time than the main CPU of BeagleBone (and Pi).  See slide 11...

cheers -ben

On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 22:32, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote:
I���m trying to collect information about programming in pharo for FPGA. The only things I found are around PharoROS like this [1]. If anyone has more information or is willing to talk about I���m open ears.

The background is that we did little things with the PharoThings toolkit and want to research which other combinations like Arduino, ESP32, FPGAs are there to be a good extensions to a Pi.

Any hint is welcomed!

Thanks,

Norbert

[1] http://esug.org/data/ESUG2014/IWST/Papers/iwst2014_From%20Smalltalk%20to%20Silicon_Towards%20a%20methodology%20to%20turn%20Smalltalk%20code%20into%20FPGA.pdf