Umm
I would say that if you don't have a descent amount of FPGA and linux
experience this will be over your head most likely :/
It is however a good board to play with I'll say and the Lattice FPGA on
it I believe is big enough to do quite a few things... But it's not the
biggest models.
As soon as I've figured out all the linux stuff I also want to start
playing with cpu.
Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It looks like the TS-7800 would be interesting as a tool for
> experimenting with FPGAs from Linux, but I am interested in getting
> some feedback. I have ordered one, but since they are out of stock for
> a while I have time to cancel my order.
>
> It seems that the supplied bitstream for the FPGA is needed for
> booting purposes (since Flash access goes via the FPGA), but if one
> were to set the unit up so that it initially boots from Flash but then
> mounts root from a SATA connected drive, one could reprogram the FPGA
> to do what ever one wants. Does this seem possible?
>
> Alternatively, if the 5182 could be convinced to boot directly from
> disk, the same might be true.
>
> Alternatively, does TS provide the verilog files for the functionality
> in the FPGA so I can cut out the stuff I don't want and put in my
> stuff. All I need is a PCI interface with bus-master capabilities :-)
>
> I currently work with 5181/5281s under VxWorks and the 5182 under
> Linux on another board, and this board looks quite neat.
>
>
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