[oclug] RTEMS

[Bart Trojanowski]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Francis Pinteric wrote:

> While reading /. today, it talks about the LEON processor, an open
> source SPARC compatible processor. It uses GNU tools and there is an
> open source real time operating system called RTEMS.
>
> I've gone to the web site to take a look at the DOCS. Does anyone
> here know anything more about it or has played with it?

Played with it a bit, Francis.  It is quite a cool concept.  They give you
the VHDL code for the sparc in 32 and 64 bit verieties.  I am not very
good in VHDL so I didn't look at that much.  However they also give you a
simulation environment so if you modify/extend the 'hardware' you can try
to run your C program on it.

You may also want to http://www.opencores.org/ which is a collection of
VHDL code for plugin modules.  Some work with the sparc.  You can add
eliptic curve crypto or just simple DES to yoru hardware chip.

Bun unlike compiling... making a single chip at a foundary is still quite
expensive.

Cheers,
Bart.

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