Welcome to the MLE Live Online Evaluation System
The purpose of our Live Online Evaluation System is to give you a clear understanding of the MLE functionality. We feel, that interactive usage of a real system gives you a much better impression of a systems capabilities than an animation or datasheet. Therefore, we have built this concept which allows you to "testdrive" the following systems:
MLE "Soft" Hardware Platform: This tutorial introduces you to the basics of the MLE "Soft" Hardware Platform architecture, featuring a MLE1000 Rapid Prototyping System. It will give you a feeling, what the system consists of and what it's like to work with it.
Connectivity Demonstration: This tutorial contains the same lessons as the MLE "Soft" Hardware Platform tutorial. Additionally you will learn how to integrate peripherals, such as a DC motor, into the system and control it from your Android Smartphone - live!
FPGA SATA Host Controller: This tutorial features an FPGA based dual-port SATA Host Controller. You will be able to experience the power of the availability of a full Linux software stack for accessing Hard- or SolidState-Disks in an embedded environment.
MLE BeMicro SDK Online Demo: This tutorial shows how the MLE “Soft” Hardware Development Platform (PDP) is implemented at the BeMicro SDK Development Kit. Run benchmarks and testdrive peripheral functionalities like ethernet, sd-card or the MLE delta-sigma-DAC via our implemented MLE Linux.
ML507 USB Demo: In this tutorial the MLE Linux Software Stack is implemented on the Xilinx ML507 Evaluation Board. MLE's I/O flexibility is demonstrated by adding High-Speed USB 2.0 support to the ML507. Therefore we have implemented the XPS USB Host Controller and an external USB PHY. Experience new USB capabilities through MLE Embedded Linux!
ML507 USB Demo: In this tutorial the MLE Linux Software Stack, as introduced in our Basic Tutorial, is implemented on the Xilinx ML605 Evaluation Kit. Explore MLE's Embedded Linux and the ML605 via common Linux commands!
Returning MLE Testdrivers are welcome to proceed to the tutorial selection page. If you have not yet gone through any MLE tutorial please keep reading and walk through the next next steps (or at least check the prerequisites first).
The MLE "Soft" Hardware Platform
All Live Online Evaluation tutorials feature the MLE "Soft" Hardware Platform. It's architecture is depicted below and will be explained to you in detail while attending the tutorial lessons.
The MLE platform for Linux is fully networked and thus, usable via remote online access, as we will demonstrate.
The MLE platform closely resembles a Linux PC. We will introduce you to the user and administrative commands.
We will showcase software development in C/C++ and miscellaneous scripting languages. For software development two choices are available: native compilation on the MLE platform, or using the MLE software development kit which includes a powerful cross-compile environment.
The flexible connectivity of the MLE platform allows you to use many different hardware interfaces, out of the box: Ethernet, USB, GPIO, DVI, SATA, etc.
