Hi Jeffsen I am using Spartan 2 XC200S, but i can't found any soft core processor in their package, would you mind pleas tell me more about the detail of using dedicated soft core processor ? -- Best regards, Alireza Haghdoost, Student of hardware engineering, On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:10 AM, xu jianfeng xjf77 at yahoo.com> wrote: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/attachments/20080706/631b2499/attachment.htm

Hi, Alireza, Spartan-3 supports MicroBlaze, while it seems Spartan-2 dose not. Do you have EDK? It's the most convenient way to configure your microprocessor system. regards, jeffsen ----- Original Message ---- From: Alireza Haghdoost haghdoost at gmail.com> To: Discussion list about free open source IP cores cores at opencores.org> Sent: Sunday, July 6, 2008 11:44:18 AM Subject: Re: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD fiel Hi Jeffsen I am using Spartan 2 XC200S, but i can't found any soft core processor in their package, would you mind pleas tell me more about the detail of using dedicated soft core processor ? -- Best regards, Alireza Haghdoost, Student of hardware engineering, On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:10 AM, xu jianfeng xjf77 at yahoo.com> wrote: Hi, Manuel, First, it's hard to say where you should start, coz you don't mention what is your intention/application. In general, Spartan-3E is a good starting kit for beginner. Well, we are talking about Xilinx stuff(provide that you will choose one of Xilinx FPGA). Spartan series FPGA could offer a soft-processor ip(Microblaze by Xilinx) while the Virtex-II Pro and above contains one or more hard-core PowerPC. It's up to your performance/budget to decide which will be your choice. Xilinx itself provides couples of demo applications in various fields, you can simply download from web and configure to your FPGA, let alone abundant third-party examples/tutorials. JTAG interface is one of the download options. Anyway, try to investigate a little bit in Xiinx website(Altera), you will have a rough idea about what shall you do. regards, Jeffsen ----- Original Message ---- From: "mgiannos2000 at yahoo.gr" mgiannos2000 at yahoo.gr> To: cores at opencores.org Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 7:46:33 PM Subject: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD field Hello to everyone.   I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I notice that you guys have developed a lot of  "cores" matching some of my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to get done through the JTAG interface of these devices? thank you for any response Manuel Giannos _______________________________________________ http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/cores _______________________________________________ http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/cores -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/attachments/20080707/5a79da87/attachment.html