On Tuesday 18 May 2010 19:11:22 Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Hmm. £35 (though no doubt that's excluding P&P). Not bad for what it is,
> though how are you supposed to get VGA out of it? An add-on board?

There's no VGA on this board (and no SDRAM either to store the framebuffer).
It's a much feature-reduced version, more a learning/experimental tool. Though 
it could make a nice small project to develop an add-on board with SDRAM and 
VGA (if there's enough IO for that). It could even run uClinux...

> Attempting to access the SDRAM seems to frag the CPU. I think I need to
> put a logic analyser on this thing... It's a shame Chipscope is a
> pay-for option on Webpack :-/

You can also run a functional (RTL) simulation of your system. By the way, 
Milkymist already features a proven (i.e. even used in a NASA project) SDRAM 
controller, integrated with LM32...

> > If this blocks you, it seems older versions of LM32 (like the one in
> > Joerg Bornschein's soc-lm32) didn't tickle this bug.
> 
> Going by the gitlog, it looks like he's *fixed* the bug.

Could you point at the specific commit?

> > Hmm... true. Checking that out, I found out it's just a documentation
> > error. The positions of the X and U bits are reversed.
> 
> That'll be the... 4th error in the LM32 Processor Reference Manual, then
> (by my count). That document seems to contain more bugs than the average
> ant farm!

If you list them, I'll put them on the Milkymist wiki. I can also give you an 
account for you to edit pages yourself.

Sébastien
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