Tristan Gingold <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 04:59:55PM -0200, Paulo Costa wrote: >> Hello! >> I've had the chance to use FPGAs at college last semester, and really >> enjoyed it. >> Unfortunately, I'm unable to get an FPGA of my own, but I do have an ARM >> development kit, and was thinking about using it as a (poor) replacement: My >> idea is to compile my designs with GHDL, write some native I/O stuff, link >> them together and run into my ARM kit. >> >> The problem is that I have no idea on how to use GHDL to compile to a >> different platform. Since GHDL uses the GCC backend, I suppose it's >> possible, but I don't know where to start. >> >> I'd like to hear what do you think about his project, and if you have any >> ideas on how to set it to use the "ARM backend" instead. > > I don't really understand what you want to do. > GHDL is a simulator. You need a full OS to run it. Why do you want to use > it on an ARM ?
I think he wants to use the ARM as an FPGA simulator, since he doesn't have a real FPGA to run on. That's not going to work. One option is to get a small, real FPGA; for about $2,000 you can get one from Acromag that will work in a Windows PCI box; you need a carrier card and an FPGA IP module (I use these at work): http://www.acromag.com/functions.cfm?Category_ID=1&Group_ID=1 http://www.acromag.com/models.cfm?Product_Function_ID=5&Category_ID=2&Group_ID=1 You can get compilers for other languages that will run on the ARM. Ada is close to VHDL in syntax, but the semantics are quite different; an FPGA is quite different from a CPU. -- -- Stephe _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
