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From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: Philippe Wang <philippe.wang@lip6.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] (Announce) "OCAPIC" : OCaml for PIC18 microcontrollers
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:47:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wroqpcny.fsf@frosties.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CB749C8B-30DA-49B7-A954-19C5FC896B26@lip6.fr> (Philippe Wang's message of "Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:44:36 +0100")

Philippe Wang <philippe.wang@lip6.fr> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> this is an announcement for "OCAPIC", a project which brings OCaml to
> programming PIC micro-controllers.
>
> Some PIC18 series characteristics:
> - 8 bit architecture
> - low cost (a few US dollars), fairly spread in electronics world
> - very low volatile memory (a few bytes only, up to ~5000 bytes, depending on
> the model)
> - very low non-volatile memory (less than a KB up to 128 KB)
> - EEPROM : 0 to 1024 bytes

Doesn't the overhead of boxed structures as well as loosing a bit on
ints make that impractical given the extremly limited memory?

MfG
        Goswin


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-06 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <951AD91B-DA92-4F92-AE90-86A13DDB2357@lip6.fr>
2010-11-04 21:44 ` Philippe Wang
2010-11-05 12:35   ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli
2010-11-05 14:26     ` Philippe Wang
2010-11-06 17:47   ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2010-11-06 19:19     ` Philippe Wang
2010-11-11  1:09       ` ocamlclean : an OCaml bytecode cleaner (Was: (Announce) "OCAPIC" : OCaml for PIC18 microcontrollers) Philippe Wang
2010-11-11  5:52         ` [Caml-list] " Julien Signoles
2010-11-11 11:57           ` Philippe Wang

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