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  1. Re:Assembler only - One Coder - No backdoors. by PurpleAlien · · Score: 1 · on Getting Back To Coding

    If you want to get started with FPGA's, consider the ZedBoard: http://www.zedboard.org/. The Xilinx Zynq offers the best of both worlds; you've got two Cortex A9 ARM codes (with NEON etc.) and FPGA fabric around it where you can implement your own peripherals and communicate with them from the CPU. You can use it as stand alone FPGA or Linux system as well, and gradually start using the 'other' side.

  2. Re:MicroZED by ballpoint · · Score: 1 · on Want a FPGA Board For Your Raspberry Pi Or Beagle Bone?

    If you want a smaller form factor than the ZED board, there is MicroZED.

    Be advised that working with Xilinx tools, be it ISE/Planahead or Vivado, redefines frustration to a whole new level. While the actual Zynq hardware is decent, the development tools are a bl*ed s*g p*e of s*t full of bugs and undocumented 'gotchas' that chews for hours before throwing up a diarrhea of incomprehensible error messages and/or generate an unworkable result.

    Xilinx support is laughable, you will at best find very cryptic hinglish that may or may not be related to your problem but certainly does not do the needful.

    Make sure to charge by the hour when contracting, or when you're in the other seat, take out a big liability insurance against workers going postal or suing you for mental abuse.

    Crassly stated, but there's a ring to it.

  3. MicroZED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Want a FPGA Board For Your Raspberry Pi Or Beagle Bone?

    If you want a smaller form factor than the ZED board, there is MicroZED.

    Be advised that working with Xilinx tools, be it ISE/Planahead or Vivado, redefines frustration to a whole new level. While the actual Zynq hardware is decent, the development tools are a bl*ed s*g p*e of s*t full of bugs and undocumented 'gotchas' that chews for hours before throwing up a diarrhea of incomprehensible error messages and/or generate an unworkable result.

    Xilinx support is laughable, you will at best find very cryptic hinglish that may or may not be related to your problem but certainly does not do the needful.

    Make sure to charge by the hour when contracting, or when you're in the other seat, take out a big liability insurance against workers going postal or suing you for mental abuse.

  4. ZedBoard, SoCKIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Want a FPGA Board For Your Raspberry Pi Or Beagle Bone?
    The Xilinx Spartan-6 LX9 is a pretty small FPGA. People interested in ARM, Linux and programmable logic should take a look at two other development boards: the Avnet/Digilent ZedBoard (USD395, USD319 academic, has a Xilinx Zynq-7000 XC7Z020 FPGA which includes two ARM Cortex-A9 CPU cores @ 667 MHz on the same die), and the Arrow/Terasic SoCKIT (USD299, has an Altera Cyclone V FPGA with two ARM Cortex-A9 CPU cores @ 800 MHz).

    http://zedboard.org/product/zedboard
    https://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=ZEDBOARD
    http://www.arrownac.com/solutions/sockit/
    http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&No=816

  5. Re:The most interesting board right now: ZedBoard by petermgreen · · Score: 1 · on Intel Rolls Out Raspberry Pi Competitor

    but the most interesting boards rigght now are http://www.zedboard.org/
    Two arm cores and na FPGA in the same chip - can run decent Linux (Ubuntu) and X/desktop (xillybus).

    Interesting but

    1: they are kinda pricey
    2: they don't seem interested in the hobbyist market, they offer digilent for academic use with "Proof of student or professor status is required" and avnet for commercial use. While I haven't tried personally I have been told by a friend that avnet refuse point blank to sell to hobbyists.

  6. Zedboard. by Z00L00K · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How Will You Update Your Technical Skills Inventory This Summer?

    I'm going for the FPGA/ARM competence by fiddling around with a Zedboard.

    This seems to be an interesting thing to go on with since it is very useful to have knowledge in how to do custom designs.

  7. Xilinx Zync anybody? by Z00L00K · · Score: 4, Informative · on ARM In Supercomputers — 'Get Ready For the Change'

    Has anybody else seen/considered the Xilinx Zync? It's a mix of ARM kernels and FPGA, which could be interesting in supercomputing solutions.

    For anyone willing to tweak around with it there are development boards around like the ZedBoard that is priced at US$395. Not the cheapest device around, but for anyone willing to learn more about this interesting chip it is at least not an impossible sum. Xilinx also have the Zynq®-7000 AP SoC ZC702 Evaluation Kit which is priced at US$895, which is quite a bit more expensive and not as interesting for hobbyists.

    Done right you may be able to do a lot of interesting stuff with a FPGA a lot faster than an ordinary processor can and then let the processor take care of stuff where performance isn't a critical part.

    Those chips are right now starting to find their way into vehicle ECUs, but it's still in an early phase so there aren't many mass produced cars yet with it.

    As I see it - supercomputers will have to look at every avenue to get maximum performance for the lowest possible power consumption - and avoid solutions with high power consumption in standby situations.

  8. How About ARM/FPGA Zedboard? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1 · on Linux 3.7 Kernel To Support Multiple ARM Platforms

    Once they unify ARM kernels, the Zedboard PC featuring the Xilinx Zynq ARM/FPGA CPU should see even more and better development.

    I'd love to see some porting of kernel functions into the FPGA, custom instructions that the kernel could execute in a flash rather than churn ARM cycles through. Is there a list of kernel bottlenecks that could be candidates for that kind of acceleration?