RE: Easy Multi-Core Development with Spin

e14 Contributor — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:52:02 GMT

Have a look @ SimpleIDE

https://sites.google.com/site/propellergcc/documentation/simpleide

There is a version in the works that runs directly on the PI itself

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?141469-SimpleIDE-for-Raspberry-Pi-Raspian

And now GCC- C/C++ for the prop

https://sites.google.com/site/propellergcc/home

RE: Easy Multi-Core Development with Spin

DAB — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:12:52 GMT

When I began playing with embedded processors again, I took a long look at the Propeller.

It has some very interesting features, but their interpreter took a lot of processing cycles, which is why I looked else where.

ParalIax has a wealth of support for the device and the chip itself is an interesting approach to multi-tasking/multi-core processing.

I suspect that the Propeller board would be a great learning tool, but once you get to understand threading using interrupts, you can do more with single core chips.

Just my opinion,

DAB