[Milkymist-devel] New snapshots available

[Sébastien Bourdeauducq]

Hi,

A new snapshot and a new binary kit have been made available today. Notable 
changes from the previous snapshot are:

- Use of the LatticeMico32 soft-processor [1] (software now runs approx. twice 
as fast without resorting to HW dual-threading)
- Full interrupt support on all peripherals
- Improved UART
- Improved BIOS and serial bootloader (for loading Linux kernels)
- Fixed SDRAM clocking (there were problems on some boards)
- Improved documentation (especially a good introduction paper [2]).

The hardware should now be fully ready to render many MilkDrop presets. 
Development on the demonstration firmware will continue; at the same time 
there is an effort to run a uClinux kernel on the system [3]. While this is 
not an absolute requirement, it would still make a nice demo of the SoC 
capabilities.

Binary kits provide you with a turnkey solution to test the system using a 
Xilinx ML401 development board [4] [5]. They are also useful for the software 
developers who do not want to install bulky FPGA tools and still be able to 
develop software for the Milkymist SoC.

Sébastien


[1]http://www.latticesemi.com/products/intellectualproperty/ipcores/mico32/index.cfm
[2]http://www.milkymist.org/doc/paper_overview.pdf
[3]http://www.milkymist.org/wiki/index.php?title=Task:Porting_Linux_to_the_SoC
[4]http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/ml401/index.htm
[5]http://www.milkymist.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_the_binaries_on_the_Xilinx_ML401_development_board