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From: Mike Delaney<mmdst23@g...>
Date: Fri Sep 22 02:48:07 CEST 2006
Subject: [oc] What SoC / cores for Spartan3E starter kit
What about the Xilinx EDK? The MicroBlaze is a reasonably decent
soft-core. It's not free though, but $500 for commerical development
should be doable.
Otherwise, check out something like the Wishbone High Performance Z80 on OC.
Mike
On 9/21/06, rich@d... <rich@d...> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm very new to FPGAs, but have recently started playing with the
> above board as a means to an end.
>
> Basically I need to implement an add-on to an ARM7 that will provide
> DDR ram, extra UARTS, SPI busses, LCD controller etc, and the
> Spartan3E starter kit looked like a good option for getting started.
>
> I was hoping to use the Wishbone interface to link everything together
> internally, and convert the Xilinx Mig1.6 DDR code for the starter kit to
> include this interface.
>
> However, to do this, I need some way of testing, and it's going to be
> near imposible to wire our ARM7 dev board to the Spartan3.
>
> So what I'm after is a SOC build for the Spartan3 that includes a CPU
> core capable of running C (or some other high level language) so I can
> test out the DDR interface etc before we go ahead with our final
> hardware.. Speed is not a problem, just need to do basic memory tests
> really and maybe a few simple tasks via the serial / spi ports.
>
> Once I have this working, I can concentrate on a ARM7 to wishbone
> interface (I notice one is already up for a 68k) and hopefully get
> everything working!
>
> Any ideas?? So far I've been working through the FPGA4Fun site, and
> have got the spoc core running my own little programs, but still
> struggling to get a lot of the code on opencores.org up and running.
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