Just clarifying, the idea to run NuttX on a FPGA is to instantiate a CPU and peripherals on the FPGA and then run normally as if it were a MCU Good thing is that you can change the CPU, add/remove peripherals, etc.
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 12:32 AM Tomek CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote: > Hey there Victor! Thanks for your interest in NuttX port to FPGA!! :-) > > No there is no such design yet.. you would have to create everything > from scratch.. so there is some serious amount of work to do.. but > imagine the results.. there will be just one step to ASIC!! :-) > > I could reconsider my mentor position in this kind of project because > I would really love to see the internals first hand.. with a help of > more experienced NuttX'er for sure as second mentor :-) :-) > > I did a PONG on FPGA over 10 years ago but I would never dare to run > CPU-less-program directly on FPGA.. then RTOS.. then lets say Atari > emulator.. chip module player.. open source smart debug probe.. a > neural interface.. who knows.. would that even fit into the FPGA? :-) > :-) > > I have a strong feeling this may be important.. but I leave the whole > decision to the PMC :-) > > Have a good weekend my friends :-) > Tomek > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 2:55 AM Victor Suarez Rovere > <suarezvic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I can certainly port NuttX to run on some FPGA boards too > > Is any board already supported? > > > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 4:40 PM Alan C. Assis <acas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Tomek, > > > > > > His toolchain is focused on FPGA, but he is interested in > participating in > > > other projects for GSoC. > > > > > > Also we need NuttX mentors, I will participate, but for each project we > > > need two mentors, please let me know who could be interested to help. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > Alan > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 3:33 PM Tomek CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 2:07 PM Alan C. Assis wrote: > > > > > Dear NuttXers, > > > > > Please find below some ideas of projects to improve NuttX during > the > > > > > GSoC2024: > > > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/GSoC+2024+Ideas+list > > > > > If you have some other ideas, please let me know. > > > > > > > > I would like to propose Victor Suarez (CC) idea for porting toolchain > > > > NuttX RTOS directly to FPGA :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://www.tomshardware.com/news/fpga-demo-shows-efficiency-gains-compared-to-x86-chip > > > > > > > > Tomek > > > > > > > > -- > > > > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > > > > > > > >
