Hi Vince, On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Vince <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Please keep me informed on porting Android to Xilinx FPGA platforms., > maybe we can do some work together? I've got a Virtex-5 FXT variant with a hard processor (PPC440), I've also done a recent port of android to TI OMAP. I just don't see a benefit porting the entire android stack to an FPGA. What purpose will it serve? The only use case I can think of is to use an FPGA as a hardware accelerator for specific algorithms and codecs, using say the OpenMAX interface, which is supposed to allow swapping of codecs between s/w and h/w implementations. If you were for example developing a software defined radio, and using android as the UI interface, now that would make some sense, but still you're better off running android on a standard processor and off-loading the SDR part to the FPGA. BTW, I'm working on integrating the Virtex-5 and the TI OMAP, so that I can off-load computations to the FPGA and pass the results back to the OMAP processor. Best regards, Elvis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
