Re: [ts-7000] Re: Running C code on FPGA

[David Hawkins <>]

Hi Alvaro,

> About C on the FPGA:
> 
> http://www.xilinx.com/products/design_tools/logic_design/advanced/esl/index.htm
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_system_level
> 
> On the Xcell magazine from Xilinx they justify this type of tools
> saying "No one can program a whole new FPGA only using VHDL... it's
> just too much" or something like that (referring with "new FPGA" a
> Virtex 5)

It depends if you know how to write VHDL, and what sort of
operations the VHDL is performing. If its lots of similar
parallel logic, then its not that difficult.

Here's 100s of boards containing about 1000 FPGAs that
are programmed in VHDL.

http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/correlator/sza.html
http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/correlator

And here's a new board with 5 Stratix II devices
(Altera's FPGAs that are as dense as the Virtex parts).
I'll build a few hundred of these too

http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/carma_board

for

http://www.mmarray.org/

Anything is possible :)

Cheers,
Dave



 
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