The first roadblock is I'd like to keep my development system as close
to debian squeeze as possible, and I have migen installed, but now it
looks like I will have to make a mess to get python3-networx installed.

Any thoughts on this? Would it make sense to have a 
'debian-squeeze-milkymist-ng' package repository so we can all work from
a known state for development?

On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 09:41:31AM +0100, S?bastien Bourdeauducq wrote:
> Since that SDRAM part on that board might operate at up to 200MHz
> (check which speed grade you have), I'd recommend you use
> milkymist-ng and its memory controller (ASMIcon) with a 1:2
> frequency ratio, e.g. run the SoC at 83MHz and the SDRAM at 166MHz.
> 
> http://www.winbond.com/NR/rdonlyres/16898431-2772-4CEA-8474-7E4AA855555F/0/W9825G6JH.pdf
> https://github.com/milkymist/milkymist-ng
> 
> You will basically need to:
> * modify the PHY so that the data serialization ratio becomes 2
> (instead of currently 4 for DDR).
> * adapt the clocking accordingly.
> * check the timing and other ASMIcon parameters. You have 2 phases
> and 32-bit data.
> * modify the initialization sequence in the BIOS to send the SDR
> (not DDR) sequence and set burst length to 2.
> 
> S?bastien
> 
> On 01/05/2013 06:22 AM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> >I've got an XESS Xula2 board ( http://www.xess.com/prods/prod055.php )
> >and eventually I'm planning on doing a ghetto resistor VGA DAC (like
> >at 
> >http://devbisme.webfactional.com/blogs/devbisme/2011/06/02/simple-vga-interface-xula-fpga-board
> > )
> >
> >But first, I need to figure out how to convert from the current 32
> >bit SDRAM interface to the 16 bit interface on the board. There's
> >even an SDRAM controller in vhdl
> >https://github.com/xesscorp/XuLA2/blob/master/FPGA/XuLA_lib/SdramCntl.vhd
> >
> >So my question is: What's easier/better? Try to use the vhdl version,
> >or switch the existing milkymist controller to 16 bit? What verilog file
> >should I be looking in to make the changes?
> >
> 
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