[android-porting] Re: We want to port android on FPGA as part of master thesis. Please help

On Jun 26, 2:49 am, tapas kundu wrote: > Hi all, > > We are doing our masters project at IITD, our supervisor has asked us > to consider getting the Andoid OS working on FPGA. What exactly is that? > > This project is very important for us as it has 18 credits out of > total 61. So we want to be

[android-porting] Re: We want to port android on FPGA as part of master thesis. Please help

FPGA stands for Field Programmable Gate Array. It is essentially programmable hardware. The answer to such a query is no, Android cannot be ported to an FPGA. You would basically need a 32-bit cpu core placed on the FPGA along with supporting hardware. Then port Linux onto it, then Android. An

[android-porting] Re: We want to port android on FPGA as part of master thesis. Please help

Hi guys, The effort required to port android to an FPGA is huge!! My honest opinion is to try to scale your thesis into something more realistic and achievable in a 1 year time frame, such as hooking up an existing general purpose CPU to an FPGA and accelerating a specific computational a

[android-porting] Re: We want to port android on FPGA as part of master thesis. Please help

Some FPGAs development kits that will will run Linux are mentioned in the following blog posting (ARM, MicroBlaze, NIOS II, & PPC processors): http://www.registerbits.com/to-fpga-or-virtual-prototype Not sure if you'd be able to get the required performance out of a soft-core... On Jun 26, 7:5

[android-porting] Re: We want to port android on FPGA as part of master thesis. Please help

Linux is ported to the microblaze (softcore) processor that runs on Spartan3E, Spartan3A, Virtex 5,... fpga's from Xilinx. You can find information on the xilinx website or on the petalogix website: http://developer.petalogix.com/ see also this : http://www.petalogix.com/news_events/Linux2.6.20

[android-porting] Re: We want to port android on FPGA as part of master thesis. Please help

Hi Vince, On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Vince wrote: > > Please keep me informed on porting Android to Xilinx FPGA platforms., > maybe we can do some work together? I've got a Virtex-5 FXT variant with a hard processor (PPC440), I've also done a recent port of android to TI OMAP. I just don

[android-porting] Re: We want to port android on FPGA as part of master thesis. Please help

Which OMAP are you using? Are you aware of TIs omapzoom.org? The OpenCore codecs are already ported to the OMAP3 3430 DSP. Elvis Dowson wrote: > Hi Vince, > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Vince > wrote: > > > Please keep me informed on porting Android to X