is there a "standard" logic-analyzer design for this board like there is for some similar boards ? --Q
Bari Ari schrieb: > I can get some boards and make some adapters. > > They include a XC3S500E-4FG320C FPGA with 500K logic gates. > > It seems like we can use the PicoBlaze cpu core: > http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/ipcenter/data_sheet/picoblaze_productbrief.pdf > > The PicoBlaze instruction set can be found here: > http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/userguides/ug129.pdf > > There is a free C compiler found here: > http://www.poderico.co.uk/ > > A simulator and assembler for the picoblaze, with a graphical user > interface, and an assembler for the picoblaze, with a command line > interface: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~marksix/ > > KPicoSim is an IDE for the picoblaze microcontroller.KPicoSim is a > development environment for the Xilinx PicoBlaze-3 soft-core processor > for the KDE Desktop (Linux).The environment has an editor with syntax > highlighting (based on the popular katepart), compiler, simulator and an > export functions to VHDL, HEX and MEM files. > > If it looks better to use a 32 bit cpu core and run uClinux we can use > the MicroBlaze core. I'll have to see how well it fits into the 500K > gates of the FPGA. > http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=micro_blaze > > uClinux for the MicroBlaze > http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jwilliams/mblaze-uclinux/ > > FLASH drivers aren't too complicated. Having the board emulate flash is > mostly done in hardware. Ethernet would require a tcp\ip stack. We have > a choice between doing everything in C on an 8-bit micro or uClinux on a > 32-bit cpu. > > I have time do develop the hardware for this, but not much for software. > I'll post all the schematics, regster info. and VHDL to the LinuxBIOS > site. Let me know what everyone else thinks and prefers to use for the > software end. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios