Let me begin from how i come to asking about this . Yesterday i was talking to my brother . As always eager to try every new gadget for pc's ,he wanted to see if he could instal vista on memory card and boot from it like from a hard disc. Now is my question - Did any of you see schematics of how to connect big ramdisks to ata or s-ata ports with a 8051. I assume it would be possible with SD cards or maybe even DDR2 with battery backup bcoz 8051 has port pins .
I hope you could shed some light on how to build this .
Have a nice eve Walkura
Hi Walkura,
Thx for sharing a great unique idea. I had never thought of it befor.
You can easily implement it with a '51 but the best onw is any good FPGA. Visit any of following FPGA makers' websites, buy there low cost FPGA starter kit's and your done.
Off-course, you all need to know VHDL or Verilog or C2FPGA language which is a bit diferent to C++:
http://www.altera.com http://www.xilinx.com http://www.actel.com http://www.lattice.com
Wish more had interestin ideas like you.
Glad to have more feedback on the same from everybody.
Regards,
--micropar--
wait a minute. before we put the OP on the wrong path - can a processor such as the C51 even boot a windows OS? I am not such am ARM7 without an MMU can do that! Are you sure a C51 is a suitable tool for the job?
I don't think the request was to boot Windows in a C51, but to let the C51 emulate a disk.
ho, I misunderstood.
"Off-course, you all need to know VHDL or Verilog or C2FPGA language which is a bit diferent to C++:"
Either DDR2 or SD, large size of memory is required.
Installation Notes - Windows Vista eu.v-com.com/.../sup_os_Win_Vista.html
Minimum space to install: 7 GB (15 GB recommended)
16GB SATA SSD (Solid State Disk) is sold in US$200 or so. It supports OS installation.
For example, Transcend 16GB SSD ec.transcendusa.com/.../ItemDetail.asp
Tsuneo