Booting a Microblaze processor + software using Compact Flash

This is a small guide to loading a standalone application + bitstream to an FPGA using the CompactFlash card. Or put otherwise, how to make the System ACE chip happy. For loading a Linux kernel in the same way, I suggest referring to a special post in that subject. Formatting the flash Rule #1: Don’t [...]

Posted Under: FPGA,Microblaze
This post was written by eli on July 29, 2011 Comments (2)

Random Microblaze notes to self

A mix of issues not deserving a post of their own. COM port issues (with Windows XP) The SDK has its own terminal, which can be set to run with a serial port. It works fine. As for Hyperterminal, by all means configure a connection with a specified Hyperterminal configuration file. Just setting the properties [...]

Posted Under: FPGA,Microblaze
This post was written by eli on July 28, 2011 Comments (0)
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