[En-Nut-Discussion] Ethernut on a softcore

[Don Ingram]

Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> has anybody considered and/or began to work on Ethernut on some softcore,
> like mico32/aemb/microblace etc?
> 
> Especially the mico32/lm32 seems promising, as the core is under GPL and people
> have used it on Xilinx parts too. It uses the wishbone interconnect bus, and
> there are lots of wishbone peripherals available (timer, uart, gpio, spi,
> i2c, can etc) on opencores. Uclinux might be another option, but the memory
> footprint is much larger, and for the control applications I implemented
> with Ethernut the coorperative multitasking nature of Ethernut made
> accessing variables much easier. I could reuse my application code too ;-)
> 
> Bye 

Altium ( who also own Tasking )would be good to talk to about this. They have a 
TSK3000 32 bit soft core in their FPGA library which is absolutely hanging out 
for a good minimalist embedded platform like EtherNut.  The NB2 platform has all 
of the network hardware resources & a solution such as Ethernut would be ideal. 
  Heck they might even kick in some devel funds or co-contributions the CEO Nick 
Martin is supporting the soft core development system with a religious fervor 
and the results to date are quite impressive.

It might open up some more opportunities for EtherNut in general.

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Cheers

Don