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Feb 15

Building A Bare-Bones 3 MB Linux Kernel For A Custom FPGA SoC

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Disclaimer: it’s a 3.9 MB Linux kernel ; ) N.b. whilst I will try to explain concepts to those new to this field, this blog assumes a lot of fundamental knowledge on FPGAs, RTL development, Vivado, Petalinux, SOC/CPU architecture, memory managers, memory hardware, SPI NOR flash memory, reset...

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Jul 17 2017

Dumping Korg i5m PCM ROMs – part 2 - Learning to Fail

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Previously I have started writing on fixing my korg i5m (part-1). Removing the ROM chips was not fixing the problem but taking advantage of this opportunity, I have started trying to dump them out. The problem was that I was not sure if I am reading correct values or not. After working for hours...

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