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Subject:    Re: [Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: Raspberry Pi-like FPGA ??
From:       Tom Mitchell <mitch () niftyegg ! com>
Date:       2017-07-20 18:46:41
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Peter Gutmann
<pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Another option if you want to play with crypto on an FPGA is
....
> The FPGAs run in the $

There are a number of worthy programmable logic devices out there and
also classic TTL logic designs.

This discussion should include Magic-1 ( http://magic-1.org/ ) and the
Lilith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer)).

My favorite processor was the 68000 which was coincidentally about
68000 gates and well within modest
programmable logic today.  MIPS processors are more modern and have
generated a lot of FPGA action.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c5db/8d244252c44b5fd4e6dc80901f298a327667.pdf
 More interesting to
some are MIPS processor simulators.  Most older CPUs have a simulator
that can be enjoyed.
The sale of MIPS (Imagination is selling its MIPS and Ensigma units)
could make some MIPS projects entangled.

There are a number of FPGA devices that have hardware on the FPGA or
on the development
board that make development and debugging possible.   Debugging is by
its nature a back door
so select devices that can have the scaffolding necessary for
debugging removed or disabled.

Other efforts might embrace FORTH.
http://www.richardhaskell.com/files/forthcoremm.pdf

It is worth researching up to a point and other than time not too expensive.
As Magic-1 demonstrates interesting stuff can be done by an uncommon individual
on the dining room table with a little help from friends.....

Designing and bootstrapping a machine is a worthy education.
So go for it.

















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