Legup Wiki

November 6:

• Bryce:
  • Continue to work on Mandelbrot
  • Still reading Linux Device Drivers (LDD)
  • Creating hand-optimized Verilog accelerator
• Victor:
  • Working on shared memory
• Ahmed:
  • Check timing for PCIe clock used with accelerators
  • Automate generation of QSYS script / Legup PCIe wrapper
  • Look into how to specify to Legup scheduler an Fmax target

October 22:

• Can the accelerators tell the dma controller to get system memory
• Calculate processor only mandelbrot times for an iteration
• Handcrafted Mandelbrot Verilog core
• Mandelbrot working by 2 weeks
• Data point of mandelbrot right now (for final presentation)
• Time, area, comparison to software

October 15:

• Get mandelbrot working on normal LegUp (Bryce to do next week)
• Do gold check against LegUp mandelbrot
• Figure out memory coherency
• Figure out how to write directly to the processor, rather than memory
• Ahmed to see how the accelerators can talk to pcie core, like NIOS does right now