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@azonenberg According to ARM website, Cortex M0 is about 12,000 transistors (which puts it nicely into "it's so damn cute" territory)?

@cr1901 @azonenberg I seriously doubt the 12k _transistors_ figure. Are you sure you don't mean 12k _gates_?

@oe1cxw @azonenberg Yes, I meant gates. Still nicely within "aww, it's so cute" territory.

@cr1901 @azonenberg PicoRV32 in smallest config, mapped with Yosys to a standard CMOS cell library: 4522 gates and 953 flip-flops.

@oe1cxw @azonenberg I wonder how a 6502 core would do (I like those as a compromise between Picoblaze and a full-blown RISC CPU)?

@cr1901 @azonenberg I know because I played around with the 6502 netlist a few years ago. E.g. http://svn.clifford.at/handicraft/2011/6502tsim/ …

@oe1cxw @azonenberg Yes, Visual6502 is amazing. Kinda shocking that it's STILL not enough to create a properly operating FPGA core. >>

@oe1cxw @azonenberg Apparently, analog effects that need to be emulated on the FPGA are enough to crash "DIP plug in" 6502 replacements.