Contact
IRC
You are most welcome to join the Milkymist IRC support and development channel.
#milkymist on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net)
Mailing list
There is a mailing list for discussions about the development of the project. "Development" should be taken in the broad sense of the term: feature requests, bug reports, patches, writing software for the chip (even if unrelated to the initial application), EDA tools and methodologies, technical questions not answered in the documentation, reusing Milkymist's IP cores or software in your own open-source project, contributions, and anything that does not fit...
This project was founded and is maintained by Sébastien Bourdeauducq, whom you can contact at sebastien at milkymist dot org. But unless you have a good reason to do so, please use the mailing list instead of contacting him directly.
More info
Wiki
For the quick notes and user-edited documentation:
http://www.milkymist.org/wiki/
Be also sure to check out the FAQ and the Roadmap.
Blog
The latest project news are here:
http://lekernel.net/blog/?cat=9
We also have a Twitter account.
Ports
Xilinx ML401
The main prototyping platform for the Milkymist SoC has been historically this Virtex-4 development board.
- XC4VLX25 Virtex-4 FPGA
- VGA output (Analog Devices ADV7125KST50 3x8-bit D/A converter)
- AC'97 audio codec (National Semiconductor LM4550)
- CF card slot (through Xilinx SystemACE)
- RS232 port
- LCD screen (Lumex LCM-S01602DTR/M, HD44780-compatible)
- LEDs
- Buttons
- Parallel flash
- DDRAM (two Infineon HYB25D256160BT-7 chips)
Avnet Spartan-3A Evaluation Kit
A simplified version of Milkymist (small microcontroller) runs on the low-cost Spartan-3A evaluation kit, for educational and evaluation purposes.
- XC3S400A Spartan-3A FPGA
- RS232 port
- LEDs
- Buttons
- Parallel flash
This port is no longer part of the official releases, but is available as a project fork.
Misc
ML401 Flasher 1.0, source (TAR.BZ2)
Milkymist Presenter 1.1, source (TAR.BZ2)
Benchmark tools (Linux kernel, and MiBench for Microblaze and Milkymist), source (TAR.BZ2)