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Xmos link to FPGA

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 11:06 am
by Folknology
I cannot seem to find it but remember that some work had been done in using Xmos links to FPGA. I am looking at the best way to connect Xmos chips to an FPGA if anyone has done this or has links to things that may be helpful..

Re: Xmos link to FPGA

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 12:24 pm
by mon2

Re: Xmos link to FPGA

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:01 pm
by Bianco
Hi Al,

I will work on some exciting new developments regarding this topic in the upcoming months.
If you want I can inform you by private message.

Re: Xmos link to FPGA

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:03 pm
by Folknology
Thanks Bianco

Please do DM me I would be very interested, I notice in your optical link it was vhdl based will this be similar or is there a possibility of it being Verilog based?

regards
Al

Re: Xmos link to FPGA

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:56 pm
by larry
I found this implementation:

https://github.com/tmbinc/ov/tree/maste ... /src/xlink

It may be related to the project mon2 mentioned

Re: Xmos link to FPGA

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 6:33 pm
by Folknology
Thanks Larry, that looks interesting, will check it out, don't think it's related as this is verilog..

Re: Xmos link to FPGA

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:39 pm
by avignani
I can confirm that the xlink code on GitHub works fine, I use it daily between my XS1/XS2 and Altera/Xilinx FPGAs. I added 9-bit FIFOs to the input and output paths and access the link through two 16-bit registers. The management of control characters (HELLO,EOM..) and of credits is done in software by the linux driver.

Alberto

Re: Xmos link to FPGA

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:50 pm
by infiniteimprobability
I can confirm that the xlink code on GitHub works fine
Cool! Good work & thanks for sharing