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Debugging OpenRisc software inside RTL simulation

August 7, 2010

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Using Icarus Verilog and a custom built GDB to debug software running inside a simulation of a OpenRisc System On Chip, thanks to the Verilog Procedural Interface.

New OpenRISC: academic work helps open source hardware

July 1, 2010

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OpenCores delivered a new version of OpenRISC, an open source processor hosted together with many open source hardware projects; more information on their current news page. What is special about this version is that the major driver for the code development has been an academic thesis on verification. Waqas Ahmed of the Royal Institute of […]

MyHDL on Ubuntu Lucid

June 2, 2010

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MyHDL is a Hardware Description Language based on Python. Last year I packaged it for Ubuntu Karmic Koala (here the blog post) and put it on my Launchpad Personal Package Archive (PPA) in order to be installed by everyone. Today I ported MyHDL 0.6 to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx; to install it, run from the command […]

Booting Linux with U-Boot on QEMU ARM

April 12, 2010

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Using QEMU to emulate the complete boot procedure of an ARM system using U-Boot, the Linux kernel and Busybox.

Hello world for bare metal ARM using QEMU

February 28, 2010

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Create a simple "Hello world" program that prints on the serial port of an emulated ARM system, using the CodeSourcery gcc toolchain and the QEMU emulator of the Versatile board.

MyHDL on Ubuntu

February 23, 2010

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The MyHDL Python modules can now be installed on Ubuntu using a convenient Launchpad PPA repository.

Simplest bare metal program for ARM

February 14, 2010

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A simple example of bare metal programming for ARM926EJ-S core using the free open source Codesourcery toolchain based on GNU gcc.

The iPad A4 system on chip

January 30, 2010

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Information on the A4 chip inside the new Apple iPad

How to watch Avatar

January 23, 2010

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An explanation of how XpanD 3D technology works with movies like Avatar.

Languages for hardware development

January 14, 2010

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A subjective view on some hardware description languages.

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