Astrobe Forum

All bugs reported here since release v7.2 have now been fixed. See What's New in Astrobe for summaries of the bug-fixes.

v8.0 Astrobe for RISC5 has now been released. Developers can use Astrobe on Windows to edit and compile real-time Oberon applications. These can then be uploaded and executed on a minimal embedded version of the Project Oberon OS running on an FPGA board. A summary of the new features included in th...

The Personal Edition of Astrobe for Cortex-M3 is now functionally equivalent to the Professional Edition and is available to non-commercial users free of charge. For more information see What's New in Astrobe for Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 . You can request the download here: https://www.astrobe.com/perso...

The latest v8.0 Astrobe for Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 have now been released. See What's New in Astrobe for Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 for a summary of the new features and bug-fixes since v7.1. If you are a registered user of the Professional Edition and your support period has not yet expired you are eligibl...

Yes - you can program the STM32F746 through the SWD interface directly from the Astrobe IDE using the ST-LINK CLI. This was the sort of capability that we had in mind when we designed the user-configurable Tools menu. Edit your AstrobeM3-v7.2\Configs\Tools.ini file and add the following lines or som...

This story has a happy ending as reported by Pablo on the ETH Oberon mailing list

http://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2021/015888.html

Free should be used with great care and only when necessary. A situation where it is necessary and generally OK is when you are in the process of developing a new module and want to test it after making changes and recompiling. In that case you should have a good understanding of how the module work...

Great! I'm pleased to hear that you have got it working. I'll add a note to the installation instructions to point out that the folder structure should be maintained when unzipping the Verilog files. We deliberately use the same folder structure as the official Project Oberon release. Is that why yo...

Thank you for the additional information. We used to supply the MCS files with the bitstream file but discovered that not only are these different for different boards, but also between different revisions of the same board :( Anbody else reading this should note the following: You need to refer to ...

(To minimise any confusion I've created this new topic and moved the original message from the Arty A7-100 topic.) We do not have the older Nexys 4 Rev B board so we are unable to test Project Oberon Workstation on it. However, it appears to similar enough to the Nexys A7-100T (which we are able to ...