Xilinx ML501 Reference Designs

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UG227 (v1.0) June 18, 2007

Reference Designs

Reference Designs

The BSB wizard helps designers quickly create a working embedded system using a point-

and-click GUI to select a Xilinx processor and an associated set of desired peripherals. BSB

generated designs for the ML501 are available at:

•http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/ml501/reference_designs.htm#bsb_design

The tutorial describes how to use the EDK BSB wizard, described in the Embedded System

Tools Reference Manual [Ref4], to create a hardware design for the ML501 platform. Figure1

shows a block diagram of the MicroBlaze™ processor based embedded system generated

by BSB. A set of basic software test applications are also generated to verify the

functionality of the peripherals instantiated within the BSB design.

The BSB design can be further customized within the Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS)

environment to add additional standard EDK IP or user-created IP cores.

Figure 1: Base System Builder Block Diagram

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BRAM

UART

INTC

SYSACE

GPIO

EMC

IIC

Ethernet

DDR2

(256 MB)

OPB

ARB

LMB