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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I prefer hardwired hardware by g4dget · 2003-02-11 19:10 · Score: 1, Redundant

I'm sorry, but I'm getting tired of FPGAs. Many early USB peripherals had FPGAs in them. The result? You need some weird driver CDs, and the hardware becomes useless when the special drivers don't install anymore.
For hardware developers to imitate the mistakes of software development is a mistake. Hardware should conform to well-defined interfaces, it should be carefully designed, debugged, and tested, and then it should not require "upgrades" or "installation" later on, it should just work. If it hooks up to computers, it should only require generic drivers.