Genode FX executes a full GUI software stack on a soft-core CPU implementation (e.g., Xilinx Microblaze embedded processor) or on a hard-core CPU (e.g., PowerPC core as featured by Xilinx Virtex-4 and Virtex-5 FPGAs). For interfacing input devices and the display to the system, the CPU core is complemented by custom peripheral components.

At the current stage, Genode FX consists of the following components:

• Display controller for VGA and DVI output
• PS/2 controller for mouse and keyboard input
• GUI software stack
• Ready-to-use demonstration projects

Genode Labs develops both the peripheral device components and the GUI software stack in a coordinated fashion. As reference platform, we promote the use of Trenz Electronic TE0300 with the Microblaze soft core.

system hardware requirements

• PS/2 keyboard
• PS/2 mouse
• monitor with VGA or DVI input and cable
• suitable FPGA board(see below)

FPGA board requirements

• about 8,000 LUTs (look-up tables)
• about 6200 FFs (flip-flops)
• about 4 Mbyte DDR SDRAM (or, more generally, any memory type supported by Xilinx MPMC soft IP-core)
• video output (at least one of the following):
  • VGA output
  • DVI output
• 2 x PS/2 port

hardware verified platforms

• Euterpe
• Trenz Electronic TE0300 + Trenz Electronic TE0304
• Xilinx Spartan-3A Starter Kit
• Xilinx Spartan-3AN Starter Kit
• Xilinx Spartan-3E Starter Kit
• Xilinx Virtex-4 FX ML405 Evaluation Platform
• Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGA ML507 Evaluation Platform

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other suitable boards

The following boards satisfy Genode FX hardware requirements, but we do not know of any hardware verifed implementation for them.

• Digilent Nexys2 FPGA Board series
• Digilent Nexys FPGA Board series
• Digilent Spartan 3E Starter Board
• Digilent Spartan 3E-1600 Development Board

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software requirements

• Xilinx Platform Studio and the Embedded Development Kit (EDK)

documentation

• official product page
• project page
• project page @ SourceForge.net
• Genode FX FPGA graphics @ SourceForge.net
• Genode FX FPGA graphics @ SourceForge.net
• documentation archive