NMI 21B as umbilical system...

[dcp]

Hi... I am new to this forum, though not new to Forth.

I am developing a robot application for a high school class and would like to run all my sensors through one of the NMI SBCs. I would like to develop Forth on a PC and compile through an umbilical to the target RAM of the SBC. I assume that is possible, but I could find no documentation to this effect.

This is an elementary question, I know, but I looked up 'umbilical' on the forum and found no matches. Please refer me to a manual, if there is one.

Thanks!

- dcp

[nmitech]

Yes, you can write your FORTH program using any text editor such as notepad, or wordpad and download to the SRAM on SBC using the Terminal program provided on NMI website,
http://www.newmicros.com/download/software/NMI/NMITerm.zip

At the beginning of the program, simply store the sram address in the Dictionary Pointer, such as HEX 400 DP ! since a default 32K sram will show up on the memory map, 0x0200-0x7FFF of the NMIS-L-0021B target board. Where 0x0000-0x01FF are reserved for HC11 operating system ram. For your reference, please see the example program below,

http://www.newmicros.com/download/appnotes/hc11_FORTH/AUTORAM.TXT


here is the link for the Max-FORTH user manual.
http://www.newmicros.com/FORTH/HC11/V35/Alphabetical/Detailed/index.html