Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Microblaze? Why not OpenRISC

[Matt Ettus]

Newell Jensen wrote:
> For the USRP2 why did you guys decide to go with the Microblaze soft 
> processor (which is not open source) versus the OpenRISC core on 
> OpenCores.org (which is open source)?  Was it just the overhead that 
> would have been needed to get it up and running (my guess) or was it 
> something else?


We are NOT using the Microblaze.  We are using an OpenCore called the 
aeMB which has the same instruction set as the microblaze, so we use the 
same GCC compilers as the microblaze.  I chose not to use the OpenRISC 
because it is much larger.

Matt