Joined: 3-Feb-2004 Posts: 584
From: Lincoln, England
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They wont be involved in the actual design process but they provide a reference design which our design would be based on. I don't yet know what restrictions (if any) they put on the designs created from their reference material. There will more than likely be none. Creating a simulator for a PPC970 chip would be dificul let alone adding the other chips such as the CPC925 northbridge, 8111 southbridge, gigabit ethernet controller and SATA II controller. I certainly wouldn't want to undertake this task. The OS will be ported using the evaluation board suplied and the testing and checking will be done with the design tools. I don't know if any of the chips are avilable in VHDL or Verilog and they would need to be licensed (as it would be possible to constuct a clone of the chip form the code) so that means more money
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