Genode FX running on PowerPC of Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs
Sep 17, 2008
With the release 2008-09, Genode FX supports the PowerPC 440 as available in
certain Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs.
The Virtex5 series marks the high end of FPGA products from Xilinx. The Virtex5
FPGA featured on the ML507 board provides a full PowerPC 440 core. With the
release 2008-09, Genode FX supports the ML507 board. Applications developed for
Genode FX can now be compiled for the Microblaze architecture and the PowerPC
without source-code modifications. The ML507 demo project that comes with the
official release operates the PowerPC at 300MHz and uses the DVI connector for
video output at a resolution of 1024x768.
