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using spartan 3E starter kit for CAN bus probe ?

Started by Unknown September 30, 2006
Hi experts !

in your opinion, is it possible to build a CAN field bus probe (simple
app. for edu. ; needs only to display Id and data , no CANopen objects)
with the spartan 3E starter kit + ISE and EDK ?

1) Does is have enough bram ? and mips ? ... ?

2) The minimalistic system should be build around a picoblaze soft
processor for data display to lcd and www.opencores.org CAN controler
(is it reliable ?) How much work is it for, say, a software developper
new to fpga design (already done an I2C slave node and Quadrature
encoder for spartan3)

3) Is it realistic trying to implement a uclinux (as murakana.info) ,
plus an IP stack and some kind of httpserver to publish the CAN data as
a web app. ?

raph