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1000K Gate Spartan 3 Starter Board Available

Started by rtstofer in FPGA-CPU19 years ago 7 replies

I just got off the phone with Digilent and apparently the 400K and 1000K Spartan 3 boards are availabel and shipping now. ...

I just got off the phone with Digilent and apparently the 400K and 1000K Spartan 3 boards are availabel and shipping now. Maybe $120 for 400K and $160 for 1000K It is supposed to be on the web site but I haven't seen it.


Floating Point Arithmetic

Started by rtstofer in FPGA-CPU19 years ago 18 replies

I am looking into the design of a processor to implement P4 Pascal. Since I plan to use the Spartan 3 Starter Board it appears I...

I am looking into the design of a processor to implement P4 Pascal. Since I plan to use the Spartan 3 Starter Board it appears I should probably design around the 32 bit memory system and that is more than adequate for the stack machine and integer arithmetic. Strings and set


Digilent's Nexys

Started by Manuel Toledo Quinones in FPGA-CPU17 years ago 7 replies

Hi, I want to introduce myself as new member of the list, and take advantage of the opportunity to ask a question about Digilent's...

Hi, I want to introduce myself as new member of the list, and take advantage of the opportunity to ask a question about Digilent's Nexys Spartan 3 board. I purchase the 1000k gate version. I would like to use the off-chip memory and tough that a good place to start was the build-in self test sources that the company provide in their web site. However, I get error when I try to re-synthesiz...


Using DDR RAM

Started by rtstofer in FPGA-CPU13 years ago 43 replies

I bought a Digilent Spartan 3E Starter Board and it comes with 32M x 16 of DDR RAM. They don't provide a controller core. So I started over at...

I bought a Digilent Spartan 3E Starter Board and it comes with 32M x 16 of DDR RAM. They don't provide a controller core. So I started over at OpenCores and downloaded a DDR core but I haven't even begun to study it. Instead I went to the datasheet... I notice that it takes 2 clocks to get the first word from memory. Then I can get a word every 1/2 clock. It's that initial 2 clocks that ...



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