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LinuxCon: Open hardware for open hardware

LinuxCon: Open hardware for open hardware

Posted Sep 19, 2012 6:12 UTC (Wed) by mmorrow (subscriber, #83845)
In reply to: LinuxCon: Open hardware for open hardware by mmorrow
Parent article: LinuxCon: Open hardware for open hardware

To clarify, in particular I'm referring to the documentation of their bitstream formats, in analogy with cpu ISAs.


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FPGA tools

Posted Sep 24, 2012 13:12 UTC (Mon) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

At some point, Xilinx seems to have had software for Linux:

<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6857>

There seems to be folks out there developing FPGAs under Linux

<http://www.polybus.com/linux_hardware/>

I know this is the "wrong way 'round", but some are running Linux *in* an FPGA:

<http://wiki.debian.org/FPGA/Xilinx>

This one seems to be a "no" to your question:

<http://www.ni.com/white-paper/12008/en>

All in all, it seems worth poking around. Just let us know your results ;-D

Oh, and this one seems promising too:

<http://hamsterworks.co.nz/mediawiki/index.php/FPGA_course>

FPGA tools

Posted Sep 27, 2012 23:34 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

Thanks for the links! indeed, a more linux journal article (http://m.linuxjournal.com/magazine/fpga-programming-linux) points at xilinx (http://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/ise-design-su...) whose webpack claims to support linux. So now to save up. :-)

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