Xilinx has bumped the Gen-2 PCIe core to revision 1.4 in ISE 11.4, and the latest drop of OpenCPI supports Gen2 operation with the ML605. We are working with Xilinx to ensure a smooth transition to ISE 12 as soon as it becomes public. A short video of three development systems is linked here.
ISE 11.4 support is now available for Xilinx-based OpenCPI platforms. We ran the PIO and DMA regressions last night against oc1001-ml555, and have a deeper regression suite planned for the upcoming weekend. There were only minor issues related to the PCIe endpoint. QoR and runtime are essentially unchanged.
Avnet delivered Atomic Rules’ first ML605 board last Friday afternoon. Although no core OpenCPI code change was needed, there were several Xilinx tool scripting issues (V6 specific) that we resolved. We ran all of our PCIe passive and DMA regressions with the ML605. It was tested interacting with the host; and peer-peer DMA with an ML555. It is fully-functional and observed identical to our ML555, XUPV5, ALDER, and SX95T regressions. All simulations were done with ISim, all RTL synthesis with XST.
Although not yet merged into the mainline, or formally committed to, the Xilinx XUPV5-LX110T board has been seen running the “oc1001″ reference application against the rplTest regressions. More details over at: http://atomicrules.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-boards-less-risk.html
Jim Stogdill post a nice piece about military open source software at radar.oreilly.com, OpenCPI is mentioned:
Three Quick Open Source in Defense Links
Next week I’ll be participating in the inaugural Military Open Source Software Working Group Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Open source conferences that focus on the defense market are often salesy, have a dearth of actual developers, and tend toward sartorial blandness – a sea of dark blue suits worn by open source vendor sales people so they can convince hesitant buyers that their wares are just like the other guys.
Also if you are in and around Atlanta, we’ll be at the developers Mill-OSS working group next week August 12-13. Very cheap and very goo!
OpenCPI developers list can be found here:
http://lists.opencpi.org/listinfo.cgi/opencpi_dev-opencpi.org
We’ll we made, last week we released version 1.0 of the OpenCPI source code: Goto:
http://dev.opencpi.org/projects/show/opencpi
and take a look, we’ll be adding more technical data in the coming weeks!
and sign up on the mail list!
Hi All,
the www.opencpi.org website was launched on June 15th, 2009.
In due course we will be posting the OpenCPI codebase in July. Right now we are going through cleaning and polishing it!
Presentation about OpenCPI at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s “Safe & Secure Systems and Software Symposium” in Dayton, OH June 2-4.
Pretty well attended meeting, about 50 people including rep’s from USAF, Boeing, LMCO, GD, etc.
Dayton CPI Presentation: mercfed_opencpi_s3_dayton_june1
The OpenCPI project finished its mid-term review May 5th in Roslyn, VA. Right now we are scheduled to soft launch the site early June and hard launch June 30.
