Microblaze question

Is there any way for a hobbyist to obtain the EDK in order to work w/
Microblaze? Or is there any other way to obtain Microblaze? I don't
have the experience to be able to go to opencores and dive into one of
the processors there.

Thanks, Tom
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You need to buy EDK to get MicroBlaze. Not cheap for a hobby engineer at 
US$495. You can buy from a Xilinx distributor or from the Xilinx website.

-- 
John Adair
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Board.
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"spammersarevermin" <spammersarevermin@krumpli.com> wrote in message 
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> Is there any way for a hobbyist to obtain the EDK in order to work w/
> Microblaze? Or is there any other way to obtain Microblaze? I don't
> have the experience to be able to go to opencores and dive into one of
> the processors there.
>
> Thanks, Tom
> Spamming this account signifies
> your unqualified consent to a free security audit 

spammersarevermin <spammersarevermin@krumpli.com> wrote:

>Is there any way for a hobbyist to obtain the EDK in order to work w/
>Microblaze? Or is there any other way to obtain Microblaze?

Order a "Spartan-3E Starter Kit" when they become available.  The EDK
evaluation is included.

This link should work:

http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=HW-SPAR3E-DK


But I'm getting a "techinical difficulties" page.


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Phil Hays

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:19:26 -0800, Phil Hays blurted:

>spammersarevermin <spammersarevermin@krumpli.com> wrote:
>
>>Is there any way for a hobbyist to obtain the EDK in order to work w/
>>Microblaze? Or is there any other way to obtain Microblaze?
>
>Order a "Spartan-3E Starter Kit" when they become available.  The EDK
>evaluation is included.
>
>This link should work:
>
>http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=HW-SPAR3E-DK
>
>
>But I'm getting a "techinical difficulties" page.

Thanks, I bought a Spartan3 starter kit several months ago but
couldn't load the bundled software because it bluescreened by
development box. So I installed 7.1i. Didn't even realize the the EDK
was part of the starter kit.

Tom

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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:19:26 -0800, Phil Hays blurted:

>spammersarevermin <spammersarevermin@krumpli.com> wrote:
>
>>Is there any way for a hobbyist to obtain the EDK in order to work w/
>>Microblaze? Or is there any other way to obtain Microblaze?
>
>Order a "Spartan-3E Starter Kit" when they become available.  The EDK
                  ^^  Sorry, parsed this as 3, not 3E
>evaluation is included.
>
>This link should work:
>
>http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=HW-SPAR3E-DK
>
>
>But I'm getting a "techinical difficulties" page.

It's still a shame that Microblaze costs $500. 
Now I'm done whining.

Thanks, Tom



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spammersarevermin wrote:

> Is there any way for a hobbyist to obtain the EDK in order to work w/
> Microblaze? Or is there any other way to obtain Microblaze? I don't
> have the experience to be able to go to opencores and dive into one of
> the processors there.

What's so special about microblaze for a hobbyist project?  That it's
presented as turn-key?

The open cores projects, or rolling your own, may have a steeper
learning curve, but as a hobbyist you trade a willingess to consider
that for an unwillingness to pay what a commercial customer might.

If you want to get a task accomplished, buy microblaze or more likely
use a common microcontroller either on its own or with a small fpga.

If you want to learn something, get the biggest FPGA eval board you can
afford and either write your own processor, or adapt one of the open
cores projects to it.

The link doesn't work because someone at Xilinx screwed up.. pardon my
Danish...

http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=HW-SPAR3E-SK-UK

You might find what you want here.  The EDK has only a 6 month license.. I
don't know if it will remain operational after that.
If it doesn't, then an Altera NOS II might be a better bet as the license is
one year, and the only restriction is you can't produce any commercial
product.

Simon


"Phil Hays" <Spampostmaster@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> spammersarevermin <spammersarevermin@krumpli.com> wrote:
>
> >Is there any way for a hobbyist to obtain the EDK in order to work w/
> >Microblaze? Or is there any other way to obtain Microblaze?
>
> Order a "Spartan-3E Starter Kit" when they become available.  The EDK
> evaluation is included.
>
> This link should work:
>
>
http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=HW-SPAR3E-DK
>
>
> But I'm getting a "techinical difficulties" page.
>
>
> --
> Phil Hays
>

spammersarevermin schrieb:
> Is there any way for a hobbyist to obtain the EDK in order to work w/
> Microblaze? Or is there any other way to obtain Microblaze? I don't
> have the experience to be able to go to opencores and dive into one of
> the processors there.
> 
> Thanks, Tom
> Spamming this account signifies 
> your unqualified consent to a free security audit

There are two clones of the microblaze available in sourcecode.

the aeMB from poencores -- programmable with the gnu assembler (mb-as).

the openfire processor -- should work with mb-gcc (there is a 
demonstration on the websites)


have a nice synthesis
   Eilert