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NetBSD/emips port runs on Xilinx and Beecube FPGA systems and the Giano system simulator. eMIPS is a platform developed at Microsoft Research for researching reconfigurable computing. eMIPS allows dynamic loading and scheduling of application-specific circuits for the purpose of accelerating computations based on the current workload. NetBSD eMIPS support for NetBSD 4.x was written at Microsoft Research by Alessandro Forin and Neil Pittman. Microsoft Corporation has donated full copyright to The NetBSD Foundation. Platform support for eMIPS is the first part of Microsoft's contribution. The second part includes the hardware accelerator framework and will be proposed on tech-kern soon.
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.\" $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.1 2011/01/26 01:18:45 pooka Exp $
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Ml401 and Ml402 with Virtex-4 FPGAs. XUP board with Virtex-5 FPGAs.
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BEE3 system with four Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs.
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The minimal configuration requires 8 MB of RAM and ~60 MB of disk space.
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To install the entire system requires in excess of 800 MB of disk space,
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for any serious work at least 64 MB of RAM is recommended.
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The processor can address the full 4 GB of physical space, but configurations with
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more than 256 MB of RAM are currently untested.
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eMIPS serial line as console
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Xilinx SystemACE Compact FLASH interface, using cards of any size.
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Ethernet using 1 Gbps cabling, both on XUP and BEE3 systems.
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