Hi! As this becomes a board line up I would like to mention this Spartan-3 board: http://www.trenz-electronic.de/prod/proden18.htm It is very small and has 120 I/O on SMT connectors. It's great as a module for building your own Spartan-3 board if you do not want to mess around with fine pitch BGAs and 4-layer PCBs. There will also soon be a low cost base board for this module that is targeted at FPGA-CPUs with SRAM, NOR-Flash, Compact-Flash, VGA, RS232, joystick, keyboard, mouse and audio I/O. Kolja Sulimma Alex Gibson wrote: >Why go with the coolrunner2 board when you can get one of >their spartan 3 starter kits for US$99 ? > >http://www.xilinx.com/products/spartan3/s3boards.htm > >The coolrunner2 board is quite good >(have one) but the spartan3 board is nicer, lot more space for your design. > >Also sold by www.digilentinc.com who make them for xilinx. > >https://digilent.us/Sales/System.cfm >https://digilent.us/Sales/Product.cfm?Prod=S3BOARD > >https://digilent.us/Sales/Peripheral.cfm addon boards > >http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/productview.jsp?sGlobalNavPick=PURCHASE&sSecondaryNavPick=&category=-21488&iLanguageID=1&category=/Xilinx+Products/Hardware+and+Cables/Development+Boards/Spartan-3+Boards > >Quoting rtstofer <>: > >>Not really an FPGA-CPU related post but this might be worth checking >>out. >> >>Xilinx has a CPLD development board (XC2-XL) for $50 that has the >>XC9500XL and CoolRunner II (256 macrocell) CPLDs plus prototyping >>area. >> >>Given the included access to a bunch of reference designs and the >>board itself, this seems like a pretty good deal. One of the >>reference designs is the PicoBlaze processor. >> >> > > |