Excited by the idea of Soft Processors
I was spending some time the other day looking at Qi Hardwares’ latest project Milkymist One. It is a SoC with the mico32 core (CPU). The mico32 is a free Soft Processor that runs on various FBGAs. From my point of view the biggest benefit of a Soft Processor is the ability to accelerate dynamic languages with high level (CISC) instructions. The primitive (natively implemented routines) of languages like Python, Smalltalk (SqueakVM, GST), Ruby try to remain stable over time….