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The two boards are connected with Porcupine and short ribbon cable. Nothing special. I should spend some time investigating the behaviour and sorting out a better api for the changes to the SDK. For example I would like to be able to programmatically determine that the board needs the North or South connector enabled without using a GPIO pin.. that seems a bit of a waste and would reduce the ability to get the FPGA elink working. I also need to get the oh fpga design on board so that I can use the Epiphany -> Arm interrupt. So there is lots to do and I dont expect to make much progress in the next few month or so, but at least my quick experiment has helped me up the learning curve!

Thanks for you help and suggestions.

Peter

First of all,
Thank you, Peter and Andreas!
Your comments helped me a lot to test interboard communication, I have replicated your work and have read coreid's from south board on north board.
Next step will be handling interrupts from OS.
Because I could not wait delivery of connectors and cables to interconnect porcupines, I tried connecting them with jumper cables. For good surprise it worked, even with 300Mhz.

Wow, that is very cool!! An impressive number of wires.

btw. I think Fred built his own cables pretty easily using some flat ribbon cable and something like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1yZKT3Yock

I did that wiring while waiting for needed sockets and cables .
For those who will purchase porcupine boards, you will also need following parts to interconnect Epiphany chips:
1. Sockets: http://www.digikey.ca/product-search/en ... 87568-3093
2. Ribbon cable: http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en ... ND/1190724

Sounds like a great project with great potential. Is there any news on this ? I started envisioning this would permit for a custom built board with a grid of 16-core CPU's to run code effectively. Is this so ?