November 2013
Linux benchmark on Xilinx Spartan-6 LX45 (SP605 evk)
I was asked to give at least a generic insight of “how fast” would Linux run in a Microblaze soft-CPU running on a Spartan-6 LX45 processor (specifically on the SP605 evaluation kit). Of course it has to be clear that the usage of such a processor/environment cannot focus on pure performance reasons, as you usually choose a FPGA for other reasons. For pure performance there are much better solutions (hardware based CPUs indeed) or if you need also the FPGA advantages processors with both a FPGA part and a hardware CPU, such as the Zynq family processors for example.
Linux Linux Drivers Linux Embedded Microblaze Nbench Petalinux Sp605 Spartan-6 Xilinx
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