On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 22:51 +0100, Michael Watterson wrote:
> On 08/06/2011 20:17, Bob Blick wrote:
> > The propeller is very FPGA-like.
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> I have an Spartan FPGA. Not much like it at all. Does remind me more of=20
> Transputer and Occam

The op was referring to the "boot up" that occurs. Like FPGAs, it reads
from an external rom, copies it to onboard memory and then executes from
there. That is very similar to FPGAs which load their bitstream from
external NV memory, loads the config SRAM, and then starts operation.

TTYL

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