[LinuxBIOS] MicroBlaze [Re: PhyWrite [SPI flash-chips] PCI ROM]

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Tue Mar 20 21:59:52 CET 2007


Anton wrote:

> 	MicroBlaze seems a promising thing. However, I'm not yet ready to rise this task to a high priority. 
> 2-3 months' development cycle suits me very nice, though. 
> 	Bari, do you have a draft for schematics?
> 
> Thanks.

Looking into this further MicroBlaze is probably overkill. They have an 
8-bit PicoBlaze that runs at up to 44MIPS.

http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?sGlobalNavPick=PRODUCTS&sSecondaryNavPick=Design+Tools&key=picoblaze-S3-V2-Pro

The board schematics are found here:
http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/ipcenter/block_diagram/S3E_Starter_D_External_sch.pdf

I'd just have a dongle off the expansion connectors to interface to the 
mainboard FLASH socket or device.

-Bari




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