Is this the smallest Oberon (program) platform to date?

[Chris Burrows]

We have been using the Oberon programming language for the last couple of
years to develop embedded software on the older ARM7 family of
microcontrollers. Having spent the last few months rewriting the code
generator of the compiler we succeeded for the first time yesterday in
executing an Oberon (Sep 2011 Revision) program on one of newer generation
ARM Cortex-M3 MCUs.

The Embedded Artists LPC1343 development board that we used can be seen in
the photo:

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This may well be the smallest (at 2cm x 4cm) dev board that an Oberon
program has ever run on, and possibly the cheapest (EU 16.90)? More details
can be seen on the Embedded Artists website:

http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/boards/lpc1343_qsb.php

One particularly interesting feature of the LPC1343 MCU is that when you
plug it into a PC's USB port it appears as a 'flash drive' on your PC. After
you have compiled and linked your program on the PC, all you have to do is
'drag and drop' it to the drive to upload your program to the flash memory
of the MCU,

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
Astrobe: ARM Oberon Development System
http://www.astrobe.com

[Chris Burrows]

Having spent the last few months rewriting the code generator of the
compiler we succeeded for the first time yesterday in executing an Oberon
(Sep 2011 Revision) program on one of newer generation ARM Cortex-M3 MCUs.
The Embedded Artists LPC1343 development board that we used can be seen in
http://www.astrobe.com/images/LPC1343.jpg

A free 'Starter Edition' of Astrobe for Cortex-M3 with an unlimited time
licence has now been released:

http://www.astrobe.com/order.htm

Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com