MASC/uCLinux On LEON3

Introduction

MicroController Linux (μCLinux) is a Linux operating system for embedded hardware systems without a memory management unit (MMU).

The LEON3 is a 32-bit VHDL processor core based on the SPARCV8 RISC instruction set architecture.

This project will involve synthesis and placement of a LEON3 processor onto a commercial off the shelf (COTS) field programmable gate array (FPGA), μCLinux will then be loaded to the FPGA.

Hardware

• Xilinx Vertex 5, ML-505 board
• Xilinx Platform Cable USB
• Host Computer. x86-64 machine (AMD Phenom x4 9950 Black (AMD64))

People

• Professor Jose Renau: Leader of the MASC group at UCSC, instructor for CMPE-202, Computer Architecture.]
• Samuel Toepke: PhD Student, primary investigator, student of Professor Renau.
• Tom Golubev: Member of MASC group, MS student. Source of Xilinx tools, Xilinx ML505 board and Xilinx Platform Cable USB.
• Rigo Dicochea: Member of MASC group, PhD student, general FPGA resource.
• Javier Castillo: Member of MASC group, embedded Linux resource.