acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: FPGAtom SAM

I'm wondering which of the Atom2K18 feature's it's worth including (and possibly pushing into the shared AtomFPGA_core module):
- PAM
- SAM
- Palette
- RTC
- LEDs
- Profiling

What's your opinion of the PAM / SAM memory idea? Is it something you have used much?

I use PAM as buffer for the WiFi board, SAM it’s an excellent buffer for BeebOPL and the LEDs indicate how much of the buffer is full. Palette is also nice to have and the RTC is set at every boot when the INIT program is run. I haven’t used the profiling much yet.

Is there any test code that I can run when I'm finished to confirm it's working?

Not really if you don’t have the additional hardware.

Do you still use the Atom2K18 (FPGAtom) regularly?

Is once a year during the ABUG-NL regularly ? Not very often, but it’s completely setup in my living room and ready to be switched on. I also tested my WiFi programs on it.

Statistics: Posted by roland — Sat Jun 14, 2025 10:18 pm

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