[HH] Hacking Embedded Linux: More Hardware than You Require

[Federico Lucifredi]

On May 18, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Greg London wrote:

> I just wanted to add: great talk

thanks Greg!

> when I reach the limit of what I can do with microcontrollers,
> I'll have to learn Linux and get a beagle bone or something.
> And maybe hope I don't get hacked too badly if I hook something
> to the internet.

Don't worry overly about it.  My point was that dealing with all the layers of an OS software stack adds complexity, and there ought to be a reason for complexity (accessing the network seems like a valid one :). And yes… once you reach that level of complexity, patching becomes somewhat necessary.

> There is a chip I've been keeping an eye on.
> It's got an ARM dual core cortex A9 MPCore
> and about 150k FPGA gates in a single chip.
> 
> It's called "zynq" and is being hyped by xilinx.
> Not currently available for sale, but beta testers
> apparently have it and are doing things with it.
> […]

> There is a development board called the zed-board
> 
> http://www.zedboard.org/

Looks interesting.  Turning the tables on you, how do we CS guys learn to play in the FPGA world without investing a month or two studying?

Thanks -F

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