On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 9:55 AM Hagen SANKOWSKI <[email protected]> wrote:
> The main difference between AMBI AXI and Wishbone is the streaming > capability. AXI can stream data, just with repetition stages, without > handshake signals. So, it would be easier and more sustainable to > bring-up Wishbone to the next level by standardize a similar streaming > feature. And yes, there are a lot of cores which using AMBA AXI which > had to be partly re-written for Wishbone. But currently, there is no > alternative, or as the German chancellor Merkel likes to say: > "alternativlos". With added streaming feature to Wishbone, we would get > an alternative full-featured SoC Bus and Designers could fix their bad > AMBA AXI bus interfaces.. great: this sounds like a perfect *additional* Research Project which someone [else] could put in a request for funding. once it is available, we can look at converting the code over to use it, and converting any peripherals to use it. or, if someone [else] wants to include the Libre RISC-V SoC peripheral set as a possible suite of examples to convert (which would help justify a budget of EUR 50,000) they are welcome to do so. the relevance of the streaming capability is that we need an I2S Audio Bus. i can help with a write-up: unfortunately i am hitting an _additional_ limit of EUR 250,000 per person for overall projects submitted, so cannot be the one to submit it. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
