Re: [rtl] Linux Drivers for PCI based A/D

[Paul Koning <pkoning@xedia.com>]

>>>>> "yodaiken" == yodaiken  <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com> writes:

 yodaiken> It's not just the money, but the interface and the hosting
 yodaiken> system.  What I really want is to be able to invoke a state
 yodaiken> machine gennerator dynamically, have it generate a circuit,
 yodaiken> upload the circuit to the hardware, all on line. Even
 yodaiken> ignoring the horrors of NT, the tools are not designed with
 yodaiken> this kind of work in mind -- although I'm told that Xilinx
 yodaiken> has some good tools of this sort hidden away.

Interesting notion.  I remember early Xilinx app notes that talked
about reprogramming the device on the fly.  (The example was an
instrumentation recorder with a CPLD not big enough to hold both
playback and record logic, so it would load whichever you needed
depending on what you were doing...)

As for tools, I remember that some people at DEC's Palo Alto research
center developed their own Xilinx tools because the stock ones did not 
do a good (high density) job on the sort of designs they were working
on.  I wonder if those were ever made generally available.

	paul
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