interfacing a WishBone IP core to a CoreConnect bus

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Is there anybody who has experience at interfacing a WishBone IP core
to a CoreConnect bus. Specifically the design of a bridge ?

regards,

Tom
 
Tom wrote:
Is there anybody who has experience at interfacing a WishBone IP core
to a CoreConnect bus. Specifically the design of a bridge ?
No, but I would be very interested in such a thing! Opening up the
whole opencores library to use with microblaze would be a great boost
for both.

Regards,

John
 
John Williams <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au> wrote in message news:<brtbfq$2ut$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
Tom wrote:
Is there anybody who has experience at interfacing a WishBone IP core
to a CoreConnect bus. Specifically the design of a bridge ?

No, but I would be very interested in such a thing! Opening up the
whole opencores library to use with microblaze would be a great boost
for both.

Regards,

John

An interesting aside for those using Altera products: The Avalon bus
interface and Wishbone are close enough to each other to make this
very simple.

A while ago I studied the feasibility of this using Avalon and the
Ethernet MAC core on opencores.org. You can wire up a Wishbone slave
to Avalon in the SOPC Builder tools with a few mouse clicks. No bus
bridge required. Wishbone masters require a bit of RTL to implement
their "acknowledge" signal but other than that everything falls
together automatically.

Jesse Kempa
Altera Corp.
jkempa at altera dot com
 
On 18 Dec 2003 18:34:10 -0800, kempaj@yahoo.com (Jesse Kempa) wrote:

John Williams <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au> wrote in message news:<brtbfq$2ut$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
Tom wrote:
Is there anybody who has experience at interfacing a WishBone IP core
to a CoreConnect bus. Specifically the design of a bridge ?

No, but I would be very interested in such a thing! Opening up the
whole opencores library to use with microblaze would be a great boost
for both.

Regards,

John


An interesting aside for those using Altera products: The Avalon bus
interface and Wishbone are close enough to each other to make this
very simple.

A while ago I studied the feasibility of this using Avalon and the
Ethernet MAC core on opencores.org. You can wire up a Wishbone slave
to Avalon in the SOPC Builder tools with a few mouse clicks. No bus
bridge required. Wishbone masters require a bit of RTL to implement
their "acknowledge" signal but other than that everything falls
together automatically.

Jesse Kempa
Altera Corp.
jkempa at altera dot com

Ok thanks for your reply but we are using a virtex pro with powerpc or
microblaze. Trouble is as John said, we cannot use the free cores. So
it would be nice to have a bridge.

regards,

Tom
 

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