[Qemu-ppc] Emulation of Virtex 5 FX100T running two embedded PPC440

[Pierre Mallard]

Hello,

I am looking for possibility to emulates a Virtex-5-FX100T with two PPC-440 board.

One of my main concern is to be able to develop and test software level (i.e. executable C code on a given OS on the dual PPC 440), without the real hardware or evaluation board to speed up final integration step. 

I would therefore like to know what are the possibility to emulate hw platform and what would be the OS supported.

Since I am pretty new to those techno. I may need some help  to have a clearer understanding on what I shall pay attention and what I should expect from emulation compare to real hardware.

 

I've seen that xilinx supports qemu for some platform ( Zynq and Microblaze ) and that qemu seems to have an ML507 PPC 440 emulated board working with linux OS.

As a start I'm wondering whether the ML507 PPC 440 emulation board can be configured to run two embedded processors ?

I would also need UART for RS422 communication and being able to develop a stub for FPGA bitstream that will be implemented in final board. Again I might forgot important keypoint in my requirements, please correct me if possible. 

Thanks a lot for your help and advice

Pierre