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tutorials about soft-core processors

Started by Dries Driessens December 8, 2003
Dear,

maybe interesting information for people who are new at softcore
processors and busses.

during the course of our research project "embedded system design based
on soft- and hardcore FPGA's", we've written:

* a few reports :
- about several softcore processors (Altera Nios, Xilinx Microblaze,
Leon SPARC, OpenRISC, Altera Excalibur and Xilinx Virtex-II Pro) and its
related busses (Avalon, Coreconnect, AMBA and Wishbone)
- about the OpenCores IDE-core testcase (this open IP-core was modified
and connected with the Nios, Microblaze and Leon SPARC)

* a few tutorials (Altera Nios, Xilinx Microblaze, Leon SPARC and
PowerPC405 (Virtex-II Pro))
all tutorials are very easy to use: bachelor students managed to build a
complete Nios embedded system in under 1 hour.

as of today, our new website is on-line where you can download these
documents and much more.

our website address is: http://emsys.denayer.wenk.be/?proj=empro&page=intro

we're working on running embedded operating systems (eCOS, Linux) on the
Leon SPARC, OpenRISC, PowerPC and others. Reports will be available in
the future.

Best regards to all,
Dries