Re: AW: [microblaze-uclinux] Low cost uClinux Microblaze platform(existence or interest ??)

[David Jones <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the feedback everyone,

I believe the Microblaze and the OR1200 from opencores.net can be
accommodated by the platform(s) that I have in mind.  I have the 
Microblaze EDK and of course access to the OR1200 IP, so I am going to
start compiling and synthesizing some test architectures and see where I
get. I will let you guys know.

David

John Williams wrote:
> Schunke Jan-Hendrik wrote:
> 
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I think the main problem is that you need the edk. Even if you can get 
>> the hardware for around $ 250 you still need the edk which is as far 
>> as I know another $995 dollar. You could probably generate a bitfile 
>> with a microblaze and probably distribute that but what if I need for 
>> example more timers or my own user peripheral? Even though I like the 
>> microblaze a lot I think that for a hobbyist an open source project 
>> like the openrisc1000 is probably a better choice (sorry to say so).
>> Or do you see a chance that the microblaze will be freely available 
>> for non commercial applications?
> 
> 
> There might be options for the EDK.  Insight sell the EDK/V2MB1000 board 
> bundle for less than US$1000...
> 
> Given the alignment of version numbers now with ISE and EDK going to 6.1 
> - I wonder if they are on the path to bundling the two anyway.  So maybe 
> a webpack-like edition of EDK is a consideration.
> 
> Going further - note the EMAC eval core that comes with EDK times out 
> after a few hours - a microblaze that does similarly would be very easy 
> to do, and could be given away freely for evaluation purposes....
> 
> John
> 
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