[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by flameout

I'll answer as many of these questions as I can.

Every different processor architecture has its own assembly language. x86 is one. MIPS has another. ARM has another. PowerPC has another. Even within x86, different processors support different instruction sets.


Yes.


Here's where my knowledge becomes thin. I'll answer "yes," as they are programmed with hardware description languages.


I'm not entirely sure of the question, but I think that hardware description languages are more high-level than assembly (the FPGA equivalent of which would be something like a "logic circuit").


You should be able to program the cRIO in assembly, given compiler support for it (which almost all modern compilers have). The FPGA, however, is not a processor and therefore has no instruction set (and thus no assembly language exists for it).


Yes, you would, since the cRIO is PowerPC.

I hope this answers some of your questions.

Thank you very much for clearing a lot of thing up for me, now would the PowerPC book from the 90s be obsolete? From what I read the PowerPC cores have gotten a complete overhaul