[Milkymist-devel] FPGA Workshop: Any summary?

[Sébastien Bourdeauducq]

Hello,

On Friday 04 September 2009 15:00:14 Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Sebastiens Blog mentions that the Spartan-3A evaluation would be a target
> of the FPGA Workshop. As I think the starter set has no external ram, only
> blockram  could be used as RAM. What could people bring up with that
> minimal hardware?

Some ultra-simple programs such as hello worlds and LED blinkers. The target 
of the workshop was to be an introduction to SoC design, so we did not run 
complex software.
We also designed, integrated and tested a very simple peripheral on the CSR 
bus (a 32-bit ROM) that we read from the BIOS.

> Did anybody bring other hardware as given in the
> "Hardware requirements". Any success in bringing it up?

One Altera DE2-70 board with a Cyclone II chip. It worked without major 
problems.

Regards,
Sébastien