A 64-bit MIPS processor running freebsd on a portable FPGA tablet

Author

Woodruff, Jonathan ; Markettos, A. Theodore ; Moore, Simon W.

Author_Institution

Comput. Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

2-4 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

We will demonstrate a portable FPGA tablet running a system-on-chip design featuring a 64-bit MIPS soft processor (BERI, Bluespec Extensible RISC Implementation) running the FreeBSD UNIX-derived OS. The demonstration has a graphical user interface which includes a file browser, a slide presenter, a drawing application, and a terminal with an on-screen keyboard. The system-on-chip and operating system also support DDR2 SDRAM for main memory, a capacitive touchscreen, flash, SRAM, SD card, and HDMI out. Gigabit ethernet provides an internet connection and permits SSH remote login and mounting fileservers via NFS.

Keywords

DRAM chips; Internet; Unix; field programmable gate arrays; file servers; graphical user interfaces; local area networks; notebook computers; reduced instruction set computing; system-on-chip; BERI; Bluespec extensible RISC implementation; DDR2 SDRAM; FreeBSD UNIX-derived OS; Gigabit Ethernet; Internet connection; MIPS soft processor; SSH remote login; file browser; file servers; graphical user interface; portable FPGA tablet; slide presenter; system-on-chip design; Computers; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Operating systems; Prototypes; System-on-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2013 23rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Porto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPL.2013.6645630

Filename

6645630