Is it possible to synthesize a linux kernel to ASIC?

[Zip1234]

Is it possible to synthesize a linux kernel to ASIC?
Linux is written in asm/C. Can you convert the kernel source into verilog and then into a ASIC?
Not the drivers and other support systems just the kernel itself.

Is that even possible? If not can it be done?

 

[dave_59]

Anything is possible in software or hardware with enough time, space, and money. :razz: What really is the difference between hardware and software but the languages used to describe its functionality.

But today, the ability to synthesize generic C code to a hardware description is very limited.

 

[albert22]

uClinux has been ported to several processor cores like Nios or MicroBlaze to be run in a FPGA. To get it into an ASIC seems to be a matter of finding a uClinux supported processor core.

 

[Zip1234]

uClinux has been ported to several processor cores like Nios or MicroBlaze to be run in a FPGA. To get it into an ASIC seems to be a matter of finding a uClinux supported processor core.

Can uClinux be in synthesized into hardware or ran off a rom?

 

[albert22]

uClinux runs as in a processor it is not directly implemented in the hardware. What it is implemented in the hardware is the processor for example ARM with its RAM and ROM.