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[ts-7000] Re: hardware acceleration for floating point on ts-7300

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: hardware acceleration for floating point on ts-7300
From: "PeterElliot" <>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:44:43 -0000
Check out:

http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/fpu/overview

I'm not sure how much space it requires in the FPGA.

Regards,

PJE

--- In  Dustin Harriman <> 
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> I see that the ts-7300 has a programmable FPGA.  It
> also does software emulation of floating point
> operations (ie. in the version of Debian distributed
> by Technologic Systems), because mavcrunch support
> doesn't seem to be compiled into Debian's stock arm
> packages currently.  
> 
> So if mavcrunch isn't readily available for use, how
> hard would it be to burn the floating point emulation
> software into the FPGA, and thereby gain hardware
> acceleration on floating point operations (and to heck
> with mavcrunch)?  Would it fit?
> 
> If this is possible, can anyone give me pointers on
> how to go about this?  Can the FPGA's contents be
> mounted like a filesystem, and I just copy files in
> there (thereby burning them in)?  I suppose that would
> be asking an awful lot.  
> 
> It would be important to me that the FPGA still be
> able to drive the VGA video, as I wouldn't want to
> lose that.
> 
> Any corrections to my dim understanding of the
> ts-7300's capabilities would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dustin Harriman
> 
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