Re: hardware + Lua resources

["Ivan Baggett" <ibaggett@...>]

And yet, still no PIC32 support.  IIRC, I started this thread a few months
ago by asking if anyone had added PIC32 to the list of ported chips.  Yes,
I know, do it yourself...story of my life.

PIC32 can be had with up to 512K flash, 128K RAM.  And built-in ethernet
MAC.  I once tried to start a design with a Luminary ARM chip, but found
there was (at that time) no stock and long lead times, so I had to pick
another chip.  PIC32 was that chip.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett


> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:37, Roberto Ierusalimschy
> <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br
>> wrote:
>
>> > > but a language that
>> > > calls itself small and embeddable (i.e. Lua) should really be that.
>> >
>> > With Lua, small and embeddable doesn't necessarily mean hardware.
>> > Most of the time small is relative to desktop/laptop type computers,
>> > including small ones and embeddable refers to embedding within a
>> > larger application.
>>
>> Actually, "embeddable" has two quite different meanings, but Lua is
>> embeddable in both of them. A lot of non desktop/laptop type computers
>> uses Lua currently.
>>
>
> Right and I would add to it that the small footprint of Lua is very well
> suited for embedding on bare-metal (which is what we do in
> eLua<http://www.eluaproject.net>)
> but, of course for the good reasons and great performance, the RAM usage
> is
> sometimes "hungry". eLua already has some extensions (ie: romable tables
> and
> functions, emergency garbage collection, ...) to make life easier on the
> current embedded hardware constraints.
>
> And "small" is not relative to desktop/laptop type computers. Even for a
>> very small laptop, if Lua grew ten fold, from its current ~200KB to 2MB,
>> it would make no difference at all.
>>
>
> Yes, but it would break the statement that it is embeddable in both of the
> cases as mentioned.
> Although microcontrollers' hardware has been growing very fast lately, the
> average ROM capacity on commercial dev kits are around the 256KBytes
> (largely enough for eLua and we have support for sd/mmc cards and other
> filesystems) and RAM around 128KBytes (enough for simple and medium size
> applications). There are some MCUs on the market (and many announced for
> soon) with 1MB++ ROM and 512KB++ RAM. Clock frequencies are already ok and
> won't stop to grow for a while.
> A ten fold growth of Lua's footprint would be very bad for eLua and I hope
> this is not on Lua's roadmap :) :)
>
> The current eLua supported platforms, architectures, peripherals and
> features can be seen here http://www.eluaproject.net/en_status.html
>
> Details on using eLua on supported kits and a (user editable) wish list of
> new platforms are on our wiki at http://wiki.eluaproject.net/Boards
>
>  -- Roberto
>>
>
> Dado
>