Re: AMP on an SMP system

[Michael Schnell <mschnell@lumino.de>]

On 08/04/2013 11:28 PM, Lambrecht Jürgen wrote:
> The Xilinx Zynq is of course purpose-built for this kind of stuff. 
> Also Altera has such a SoC (System on Chip). My student also found 
> examples of an AMP solution with Linux/FreeRTOS and Linux/eCos. 

I feel that for many "virtual Peripheral" applications (at least for 
those I have in mind right now), a single dedicated 1 GHz Cortex should 
be good enough. So I'd like to avoid the cost for hardware and 
development of an additional FPGA .

> Let me know if you need more info, but I fear my answer is too deep 
> embedded an away from Linux (when I read the other answers). 
Thanks a lot for your encouraging notes. I think the gap between 
embedded Linux and more propriety embedded OSes.

> Success anyhow, and I would be happy to read about your project!
Of course I am "here to stay". But in fact this is not really a project 
yet but a rather long term thingy.

-Michael