need help on a 8051 ip core

Hi there folks i`m currently doing a msc project and trying to
implement a 8051 ip core and program it using 'C'. Porblem is i cant
find  an ip core that will let me use it without having to spend money
on it. As i am a student i cant get my hands on that kind of cash. Can
anybody help me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
JP

jpmcg wrote:

> Hi there folks i`m currently doing a msc project and trying to
> implement a 8051 ip core and program it using 'C'. Porblem is i cant
> find  an ip core that will let me use it without having to spend money
> on it. As i am a student i cant get my hands on that kind of cash. Can
> anybody help me.
> 

Try:
<http://www.opencores.org/> and look down the page. Can't see what's the 
point of an MSc where you use someone else's core, and somneone else's C 
compiler, or is there some further point to it?

While we are on IP cores, what is the cheapest (in small quantity) FPGA 
at the moment, including boot EEPROM?

Paul Burke

"Paul Burke" <paul@scazon.com> wrote in message
news:2mmejuFnu5bmU1@uni-berlin.de...
> jpmcg wrote:
>
> > Hi there folks i`m currently doing a msc project and trying to
> > implement a 8051 ip core and program it using 'C'. Porblem is i cant
> > find  an ip core that will let me use it without having to spend money
> > on it. As i am a student i cant get my hands on that kind of cash. Can
> > anybody help me.
> >
>
> Try:
> <http://www.opencores.org/> and look down the page. Can't see what's the
> point of an MSc where you use someone else's core, and somneone else's C
> compiler, or is there some further point to it?
>
> While we are on IP cores, what is the cheapest (in small quantity) FPGA
> at the moment, including boot EEPROM?

The Altera Cyclone, AFAIK. The EP1C3T100C8 is 8.03 GBP and the EPCS1SI8
configuration device is 1.87 GBP. I recently bought five of each from Arrow
UK.

Leon
-- 
Leon Heller, G1HSM
http://www.geocities.com/leon_heller

> find  an ip core that will let me use it without having to spend money
> on it. As i am a student i cant get my hands on that kind of cash. Can

<http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/8051/overview>

> implement a 8051 ip core and program it using 'C'. Porblem is i cant
> find  an ip core that will let me use it without having to spend money
> on it. As i am a student i cant get my hands on that kind of cash. Can

<http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/8051/overview>

jpmcg wrote:

> Hi there folks i`m currently doing a msc project and trying to
> implement a 8051 ip core and program it using 'C'. Porblem is i cant
> find  an ip core that will let me use it without having to spend money
> on it. As i am a student i cant get my hands on that kind of cash. Can
> anybody help me.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> JP

Hi there,

If you use VHDL, please check this web site for a few 8051 IP cores:
http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/vhdl.html

The following newsgroups are better places for you to post
questions regarding VHDL/Verilog IP cores:
- comp.lang.vhdl
- comp.lang.verilog
- comp.arch.fpga

For implementation, the Xilinx FPGA Start kit (US$99.0) is a very
good value platform for 8-bit CPU development:
http://www.xilinx.com/products/spartan3/s3boards.htm

For C-compiler, if your program code is not that big, try the keil
evaluation kit.  Or you can use SDCC
http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/

Hope this helps.

Joe