Hi Michael<br><br>I too am planning to switch to 'sitara' AM3517 SBCs from at91sam9263. Hope there would be an effort to an fpc port to this board on linux-uclibc.<br><br>regards<br><br>Nataraj<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Michael Schnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mschnell@lumino.de">mschnell@lumino.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 07/09/2010 01:22 PM, ik wrote:<br>
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Does FPC capable of supporting <a href="http://www.analog.com/en/embedded-processing-dsp/processors/index.html" target="_blank">blackfin</a>
(and others in it's family) CPU ? <br>
It seems that more and more embedded projects starting to use
it.<br>
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No. <br>
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In fact I did a (quite low priority) research on how to port FPC to
a new CPU such as NIOS and Blackfin and found that it of course is
doable somehow. While NIOS seems to look more doable, as it's quite
similar to MIPS (and ARM), Blackfin has a much more complex
instruction set with a huge potential for low-level optimization.
Thus I suppose Blackfin is quite hard to do. <br>
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OTOH I have the impression that the real winner with embedded
projects will be ARM (especially Cortex) and here Linux is getting
interesting for even lower-size and higher-Volume projects. So I am
shifting my interests towards Linux enabled embedded ARM chips (like
the TI AM1x and AM3x "Sitara" series that has been introduced in
2010 and feature a RISK coprocessor for hard realtime / virtual
peripheral stuff). <br>
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-Michael<br>
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