Software/Hardware FPGA Dev Board that runs Linux

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday February 11, 2003 @06:06PM from the bringing-it-together dept.

bforsse writes "The ML300 allows engineers to develop hardware with HDL synthesis/simulation and software with standard GNU tools. The entire system is implemented inside one FPGA with an integrated IBM PPC processor. The board comes with all the peripherals that a standard motherboard or laptop has and then some. It currently ships with MontaVista Linux, a number of other linux flavors and OSs are in the pipeline. Maybe this new merging of the hardware and software worlds will settle some of the religious wars between hw and sw engineers?...ok, maybe not."

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What? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-11 23:18 · Score: -1, Flamebait

As far as I know, software has always run on hardware? And hardware engineers have always been held to absurdly high standards of quality, while software monkeys (sorry bubba, you're no engineer) can just copy and paste together some colorful icons and make three times as much money as a hardware guy who's probably still a virgin because he spent his childhood learning electronics on his own.
Nice world we live in.