sgrudu
Member level 2
Yesterday @ltera annouced version 3.0 of n1os soft processor core. Also x1linx m1croblaze stuff
is in big development. It seems we'll see in the future lot of applications working with
these soft processors.
I've ordered an ins1ght xil1nx proto board and as soon as I can will give a try to m1croblaze,
but personally I like very much the fact that @ltera gives the GNUpro sources for n1os
for free without problems. Instead x1linx just sells the edk with a subset of GNUpro
precompiled only for windows... bleah.
I'd like to know opinions here from people who have tried one of these two processor
cores and had experience with that.
There are a lot of factors to take into account:
- processor performance
- fpga's supporting them and costs for fpgas.. (for example m1croblaze can run on
v1rtex-II pro but it can run on sp@rtan-II too.. )
- cost of: core / additionals ip cores / dev boards
- easy of use and power of development software
etc..
Greets
sgrudu
is in big development. It seems we'll see in the future lot of applications working with
these soft processors.
I've ordered an ins1ght xil1nx proto board and as soon as I can will give a try to m1croblaze,
but personally I like very much the fact that @ltera gives the GNUpro sources for n1os
for free without problems. Instead x1linx just sells the edk with a subset of GNUpro
precompiled only for windows... bleah.
I'd like to know opinions here from people who have tried one of these two processor
cores and had experience with that.
There are a lot of factors to take into account:
- processor performance
- fpga's supporting them and costs for fpgas.. (for example m1croblaze can run on
v1rtex-II pro but it can run on sp@rtan-II too.. )
- cost of: core / additionals ip cores / dev boards
- easy of use and power of development software
etc..
Greets
sgrudu