Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Re: multiprocessing

[Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

John Williams wrote:
>> Well for one reason because no I can put on 1 chip all the periperhals
>> that I need to use X chips for now. Insetad of laying down a CPU, a
>> network engine, etc, I can lay down a single FPGA that is everything
>> on one. One day it may even be cheaper :-)
> 
> 
> I think Greg has captured the reality of FPGA-based systems at the 
> moment.  Xilinx' marketing line for Spartan-3 is "Make it your ASIC". 
> For me that says it all, about where they want this device to live.

Makes sense really. This is the market "niche" that they have
grown from.

Ofcourse we know it can do so much more :-)


>> Or maybe I can lay down 4 or 8 or more Microblaze cores on a single
>> FPGA and do something clever with traditional SMP.
> 
> 
> Hey Greg, I delivered your Microblaze SMP hardware already remember?! :)
> 
> This would be the first SMP uClinux system right?  Let's do it!

It would. We had better get it finished before someone else
comes along with another SMP setup :-)

Regards
Greg



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