Hardware/Software Communication in Virtex-2p

[Ramtilak]

Hi All,

I am designing a system which has both hardware and software parts. I
want to make some computations in the hardware and then sample the
results in the software running on PowerPC. Did anyone do something
similar? Whats the best and the easiest way to do this?

Thanks,
Ramtilak

 

[Shalin Sheth]

Ramtilak,

Look at the UltraController Application Note which has a prebuilt
PowerPC system and 32-bit GPIO interface to fabric to bring data into
and onto the FPGA fabric from software running on the PowerPC. More
information on this design can be found at:
http://www.xilinx.com/ultracontroller.

Shalin-

Ramtilak wrote:

Hi All,

I am designing a system which has both hardware and software parts. I
want to make some computations in the hardware and then sample the
results in the software running on PowerPC. Did anyone do something
similar? Whats the best and the easiest way to do this?

Thanks,
Ramtilak