From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2005-07-29T10:59:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Ruby in embedded applications


>This sounds really interesting - are you at liberty to provide more 
>details?
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A few more, we have the project, but the docs are in Japanese so some of 
the details are a little bit vague (at least for me!)

It's a small project for the company (who I won't mention) to test 
off-shore development here in Vietnam.  They have a processor (ASIC/FPGA 
still unclear exactly about it) that performs some kind of image 
processing.  They have an original set of test data in a special format 
which can be read using RTL (this is the vague bit).  They have another 
algorithm (in C this time), but they don't have any test data.

Our task is to create compatible data for both the RTL version and the C 
version (using the RTL data as as starting point).  After that we have 
to run both algorithms with the data set and compare output 
(algorithmically).  Finally we have to actually look at the images and 
ensure we can't "see" any artefacts.  The comparator program should be 
fairly easy (at least in Ruby), converting the data will be the tricky part.


>Reading between the lines of your post: It would seem that you're 
>developing an ASIC or FPGA with an embedded CPU and then you plan to run 
>the Ruby interpreter on that CPU?
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>Phil
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Nope, not quite :) and not really embedded ruby at all, just Ruby to 
test an embedded processor (at least that's my understanding of the 
translated docs so far)