http://opensparc-t1.sunsource.net/download_hw.html

What you get (and what you need to use it):

This download area is for hardware design and verification engineers, it includes


Verilog RTL for OpenSPARC T1 design

Verification environment for OpenSPARC T1

Diagnostics tests for OpenSPARC T1

Scripts and Sun internal tools needed to simulate the design and to do synthesis of the design

Open source tools needed to simulate the design

System Requirements:


SPARC CPU based system with Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 Operating System

C/C++ Compiler, if you don't have it download Sun Studio 11.

Commercial EDA tools Requirements:


Verilog Simulator : Synopsys VCS or Cadence NC-Verilog

Synthesis : Synopsys Design Compiler



Nice annotated die photo of Niagara here btw:
http://opensparc.sunsource.net/imag...overlay_die.jpg

Pretty decent write-up about the event here:
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn032106-story01.html

It notes that a start-up has been formed with the aim of bringing a single-core version out for the embedded market.


I came across this blog by David Miller, who's working on SPARC support in Linux. He has some interesting comments on Niagara (and other SPARC aspects):
http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/cgi-bin/blog.cgi


PS http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jo...is_the_computer
Sun's $1/CPU-hour utility grid is set to go live any day now. For US anyway (blame export restrictions), with other country specific sites going live later.

One thing they've been working on is to make the user interface really really simple. Looks like later on it'll be accessable as a web-service - ie you could get your own code to offload processing to Sun's grid in software.


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不懂去上幾個課再來