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Discussion Groups | FPGA-CPU | Re: Transputers [ was What are peoples opinion of the AlteraNios Processor? ]

This list is for discussion of the design and implementation of field-programmable gate array based processors and integrated systems. It is also for discussion and community support of the XSOC Project (see http://www.fpgacpu.org/xsoc).

Re: Transputers [ was What are peoples opinion of the AlteraNios Processor? ] - Goran Bilski - Mar 19 19:26:00 2003

Hi,

John Kent wrote:

> Hi Josh,
>
> I'd be interested to see your paper when you are finished.
> The Leon looks nice ... but I don't have a 800K gate Virtex FPGA
> to play with. I'm using the BurchED FPGA board with the XC2S200.
> Are there any small 32 bit CPUs that will fit in a 200K gate FPGA ? MicroBlaze will fit the XC2S200 and you would get around 65-70 MHz. > I was wondering about the transputer (T425).
> Are there any copyrights on the Transputer instruction set ?
> I can't find much on the transputer instruction set on the web,
> although I have not done an exhaustive search as yet.
> The google search did turn up a newsgroup post on FPGACPU
> regarding the transputer I beleive the transputer is stack based and
> only has 3 x 32 bit registers so should be fairly small.
>
> The other possibility is to design my own 32 bit CPU,
> but then I'd have to design a tool set for it too.
>
> John Kent.
>
> Josh Pfrimmer wrote:
>
> >Oooh... good topic for me (and in light of recent list politics, I sure hope
> >it's interesting to some of you as well :) )
> >
> >I'll be writing a paper in the next few weeks: a survey of commercially and
> >freely available 32-bit RISC IP cores.
> >
> >For the paper, I'm interested in hard and soft cores, but for the future, my
> >research will require one that I can customize (that is, VHDL or Verilog
> >available). I'm already looking at LEON for that... but I'd appreciate
> >input as well.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Josh Pfrimmer, B.Eng
> >
> >
> >
>
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Re: Transputers [ was What are peoples opinion of the AlteraNios Processor? ] - John Kent - Mar 19 21:27:00 2003

Hi Goran ...

You have to pay for micro blaze don't you ?

John.

Goran Bilski wrote:

>MicroBlaze will fit the XC2S200 and you would get around 65-70 MHz. >

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Re: Transputers [ was What are peoples opinion of the AlteraNios Processor? ] - Neeraj Varma - Mar 19 23:50:00 2003

MicroBlaze comes as a part of the Embedded Development Kit (EDK) from
Xilinx, in the form of a netlist and with a host of peripherals. It costs
$495 right now and can be bought online at the Xilinx web. ----- Original Message -----
From: "John Kent" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: [fpga-cpu] Transputers [ was What are peoples opinion of the
AlteraNios Processor? ] > Hi Goran ...
>
> You have to pay for micro blaze don't you ?
>
> John.
>
> Goran Bilski wrote:
>
> >MicroBlaze will fit the XC2S200 and you would get around 65-70 MHz.
> >
> >
> >
>
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