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...

https://elinux.org/images/1/1c/Birkett--enhancing_rt_capabilities_with_the_pru.pdf

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