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Re: [microblaze-uclinux] RE: Linux kernel instructions->gates
We're in the early stages of the project.
I've done several projects for commercial clients with MB and native
running code.
We're working towards using uCL(perhaps some MMU based Linux)/MB as our
platform of choice for all new development projects. We have about 10
projects that we are developing ocncurrently that will use this platform.
We haven't documented anything that we can release yet, but I'd expect
things to have some information in about 30 days.
Regards,
Mike
Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> Any project docs? Or are you in stealth mode?
>
>
>On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 19:49 -0700, Mike Parrish wrote:
>
>
>>We're working on the Spartan 3 dev kit from NuHorizons, pending
>>availability *sigh*, or perhaps a Memec solution... targetting MB/uCL.
>>
>>There's no reason that any other uP/FOSS OS/HW target couldn't be
>>adapted from this work. I'd imagine that system profiling would show
>>similar usage of certain OS services.
>>
>>We're in Morgan Hill, California.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Mike
>>
>>Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
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>>> Does your group have any more detailed documentation of your project?
>>>Is the platform the PPC/FPGA from Xilinx + MB/uCL (or full/MMU Linux),
>>>the "pure" FPGA MB/uCL, or something else? Where are you working on
>>>this?
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 09:42 -0700, Mike Parrish wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Matt,
>>>>
>>>>This is exactly what our group is in the process of doing.
>>>>Any OS service that bogs the processor can be removed from the SW build,
>>>>replaced with a VHDL model and accessed through stub APIs that retain
>>>>the original API calling conventions.
>>>>
>>>>Synchronization and pipleining are the big bugaboos to be worked out.
>>>>
>>>>This technique should vastly speed the processor and overall system
>>>>performance by making large OS services concurrent and by reducing the
>>>>CPU's executable instructions.
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> That's an interesting resource. What I'm really looking for is an
>>>>>example of factoring out an "instructions" feature of uCL, like the
>>>>>ethernet kernel module, into a function implemented as gates in the
>>>>>FPGA. Then removing that module from the uCL - leaving just its stub
>>>>>that "calls" the gates.
>>>>>
>>>>> That *technique* could make something like MB/uCL a "migration
>>>>>platform" for the OS, selectively optimizing parts of the OS, perhaps
>>>>>even on an application demand basis. Start with "stock" uCL, factor a
>>>>>driver to gates, drop the factored module from the kernel. While a
>>>>>PPC/FPGA uCL is a good start, MB/uCL is ultimately even better, because
>>>>>the interface between the uCL code and the FPGA can be expanded beyond
>>>>>the bottleneck, just by adding registers etc to the MB config.
>>>>>
>>>>> It doesn't sound like anyone on this list has seen that technique yet.
>>>>>I'll keep filtering the traffic until I think I see its glint
>>>>>sometime :).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 07:27 -0700, David Banas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>There's a new TCP/IP stack co-processing IP core that Xilinx just released.
>>>>>>Supposedly, it's capable of 900 Mbps throughput.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>David Banas
>>>>>>Field Applications Engineer
>>>>>>Nu Horizons Electronics Corp.
>>>>>>2070 Ringwood Avenue
>>>>>>San Jose, CA 95131
>>>>>>(408)434-0800 - office
>>>>>>(415)846-5837 - cell
>>>>>>http://www.nuhorizons.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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