| ??? 05/04/10 18:41 Read: times |
#175680 - PicoBlaze vs other Xilinx processing Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Jez Smith said:
I couldn't agree more, we had an academic group doing an IP project for us at York university and they insisted on using the xilinx softcore procesor which is really just a glorified state machine, to implment their algorithm, and we said look why dont you implment your alogrithm directly in hardware?, and we got a thousand excuses as why they couldn't do that, so we ended up walking away from the project. Ah, that's the PicoBlaze, which is indeed a programmable state machine. The PicoBlaze works very well for things that suit it but certainly there are plenty of situations where a direct hardware implementation is the way to go. It sounds like those academics are simply scared of hardware design (and they should be!) but at some point these groups need to leave the jobs to the experts! And the "ecosystem" for the Microblaze 32-bit soft core and the PPC hard cores (the latter is no longer interesting to Xilinx since it's not in their new parts) is overblown and unsuited for production work. Unless you know that your system is completely set in stone and bullet proof SoC is very expensive and long winded. oh, yeah. Especially if it's a Cypress SoC. -a |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Triscend Fastchip | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Try Here | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hmmmm | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Zylogic | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Elven dialect :) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Thanks for all the info | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What did you hope to learn? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ready to drop the TS505. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I think you mean TE505? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
talk serially to a GSM MODEM | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Triscend is dead | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| All these products | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Which products? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You may have seen something other | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Quite possibly so | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Xilinx hardcore processors | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Too True | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| PicoBlaze vs other Xilinx processing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| overblown ecosystem | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| overengineered and costly? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| overblown | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I see, thanks Per & Andy | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Triscend is dead. Long live Cypress | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Cypress PSoC | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Triscend tech rep | 01/01/70 00:00 |