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LEON3: 32-bit Softcore FPGA processor of SPARC architecture

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

This seminar was recently presented by V. Nikonov, member of our firmware engineering team.

LEON3: 32-bit Softcore FPGA processor of SPARC architecture

  1. General overview of Sparc v8 processor architecture
  2. LEON3 implementation by AeroFlex Gaisler
  3. GRLIB IP Library for LEON3
  4. Using Eclipse IDE along with GRMON monitor
  5. GRSIM and TSIM simulators
  6. U-boot: compilation, configuration for LEON3, loading into RAM via JTAG
  7. Linux: compilation, configuration, customization for LEON3, loading via tftp
  8. Comparing LEON3 to other soft-core processors
  9. Summary