[racket] Racket VM in FPGAs

To be more specific, initially I want to replace the Java VM in JOP with a Racket VM.
JOP is great as a starting point because it has many useful things available from the start: support for USB and serial interfaces to load the bytecode from the PC, memory interfaces, floating point unit.

I haven't looked into the Scheme-79 paper yet (thanks for the reference by the way!).

On Oct 19, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Alexander McLin wrote:
> I'd be interested in hearing how it's going!
> 
> Just curious, are you reusing ideas from Scheme-79, or starting off in an entirely different direction? From your original email, I assume you're using JOP as a springing board?
> 
> Alex
> 
>> On Oct 19, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Petr Samarin <petrsamarin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> First I want to develop a small core (probably written in VHDL) that supports a subset of Racket's bytecode.
>> I don't want to target any specific board/FPGA so that it can be used anywhere.
>> But during development I will be testing the core on the board that I have at home (DE2-70 from Terrasic).
>> 
>> When the basic version is done, I am also interested in how much parallelism can be achieved on the VM level (adding more stacks, executing several bytecodes at once, etc.).
>> 
>> Petr
>> 
>>> On Oct 19, 2013, at 12:26 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
>>> Petr, I will be very interested to hear how this project goes, including which FPGA you end up targeting, your application (large-scale parallel?  low power?), and how speed compares to the JIT'd VM running on CPUs.
>>> 
>>> If you can use an open source toolchain, all the better, although a free-as-in-beer toolchain would also be OK if the open source ones don't support your target.  If it requires an expensive toolchain, it's still a good project, but much harder for other people to build on after you are done.  (The beefier FPGAs I was looking at in the last year, for numeric computing, seemed to require expensive proprietary toolchains.)
>>> 
>>> Neil V.
>> 
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