Talk about going full circle! Gadget Factory has coded an Arduino core into a Spartan 3E on the FPGA ButterFly platform. This expands your prototyping opportunities, and provides beginners with a familiar FPGA core to build on.
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Is this legal? Doesn’t ATMEL own hold sort of intellectual property over their micro-controller designs? I really have no idea – this just occurred to me. Maybe someone knows more about this…
Well…If they only ported the bootloader…That’s open source and not Atmels property
greetz
@Robin, so it is your opinion that if they have a core programmed that emulates an Arduino (never mind the bootloader), which is essentially an ATMega168/328 micro-controller, then it is illegal?
@ Drone: No, I don’t.
I think only the hardware, that means the essential wiring, is real property of Atmel’s. Emulation isn’t illegal, that’s my opinion (I didn’t study law, but that’s how I know it)
greetz