Milkymist SoC reaches beta stage

Source: http://lekernel.net/blog/?p=414

The SoC design of Milkymist, an open hardware platform for video performance artists, now has all the required features to implement many video effects.

The next step in the project is to develop software that leverages the features of this architecture to render MilkDrop-like visual effects on a stand-alone FPGA development board.

The Milkymist hardware design is entirely written in open source synthesizable Verilog. It notoriously features the LatticeMico32 WISHBONE-enabled softcore processor capable of running uClinux, a high performance DDR SDRAM controller, and graphics accelerators for texture mapping and floating point computations. A good introductory paper about the SoC architecture can be found here.

By: Bourdeauducq, Sebastien