| --- Log opened Sun Aug 23 00:00:12 2015 | ||
| stekern | andrzejr: there are millions examples where'd you run realtime critical programs on the openrisc processor and application programs on the application processors | 05:20 |
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| stekern | here's an real example: https://github.com/skristiansson/sublime | 05:23 |
| stekern | it's a synthesizer, where the openrisc processor takes care of stuff that does not make sense in hardware, but still need to be low latency (such as calculating adsr waveforms etc) | 05:24 |
| stekern | the arm processor can then be used to run sequencers etc that you control the synth with | 05:25 |
| stekern | there are a lot of examples like that in the industrial field, especially if you want to connect your deevice to an industrial fieldbus | 05:27 |
| andrzejr | stekern, interesting example, thank you. | 07:56 |
| andrzejr | I agree there are millions of applications for e.g. external MCUs, but with an FPGA + processor macro the field is much narrower. In terms of efficiency you are much better off implementing the task in FPGA or the main processor. | 08:01 |
| andrzejr | But there is a gray area in the middle where for convenience you could add a CPU softcore and your synthesizer is a good example of that. | 08:03 |
| --- Log closed Mon Aug 24 00:00:13 2015 | ||
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