[En-Nut-Discussion] Ethernut on a softcore

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Don" == Don Ingram <don at led.com.au> writes:

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

Altium doens't match with my wish for open tools. I also didn't see much if
any discussion about the TSK300 in newsgroup, so there isn't the group of
open users giving the project some impetus.

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

I will get the Xilinx DSP kit in some days, let's look if I find time to
play with it.

Bye
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