Hi Kumar, First and foremost you'd want to choose a FPGA that already has support in Linux, that'll make the porting possible and easier to get going. From there, you'd want to look at the RAM and storage requirements for Android. Most people seem to indicate that at least 128 MB of RAM is needed for Android. Storage wise, 256 MB of flash would be great..
Now apart from the main processor you'll also want to think about things like hardware acceleration for OpenGL since Android 2.1 onward not having one will make the UI absolutely CRAWL..and if you want to do any heavy audio/video stuff then you'll need to think about a DSP.. Regards -- Ashwin On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:24 PM, hobbeston <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ashwin, > We are thinking of an FPGA board with any of the publicly available > soft cores like Nios2, microblaze, etc. We have access to any > combination of boards/soft cores. What other information would you > like? > > Thanks, > > -Kumar. > > On Jan 6, 1:53 pm, Ashwin Bihari <[email protected]> wrote: >> What kind of specs were you thinking for the FPGA? It's better for you >> you tell us what you were thinking of using and then get opinions on >> whether you need to make changes.. >> >> -- Ashwin >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:33 PM, hobbeston <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > We are looking into porting Android on an FPGA platform. >> >> > Any advise/pointers in this regard is greatly appreciated. >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > -Kumar >> >> > -- >> > unsubscribe: [email protected] >> > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
