Nuhorizons Spartan-3 board with Ethernet?

Does anybody know whether the Nuhorizons board 
(http://www.nuhorizons.com/products/xilinx/spartan3/development-board.html) 
can be interfaced (easily) with the NET1 Ethernet peripheral board from 
Digilent? (https://digilent.us/Sales/Peripheral.cfm)

If so, could someone explain how it would be done?


cheers,

C3 

"C3" <_> wrote in message news:<41989dcd$0$24376$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
> Does anybody know whether the Nuhorizons board 
> (http://www.nuhorizons.com/products/xilinx/spartan3/development-board.html) 
> can be interfaced (easily) with the NET1 Ethernet peripheral board from 
> Digilent? (https://digilent.us/Sales/Peripheral.cfm)
> 
> If so, could someone explain how it would be done?

You'd probably have to physically translate the connectors.

The next question is if the more limited user I/Os on the more
feature-heavy board would be sufficient to support it.

Once you commit to making translating connectors, there are also
people who have interfaced old ISA ethernet cards to 8051's, PIC's
etc, so presumably an FPGA interface would be possible.  Some of the
chips are apparetnly 8-bit bus capable, which would cut down on the
number of FPGA pins needed.  (Also remember that it's a bus, so the
lines don't have to be dedicated to just this peripheral)

Software drivers will need to be found or written...

Chris

Thanks for the tips.


C3
"Chris Stratton" <cs_posting@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "C3" <_> wrote in message 
> news:<41989dcd$0$24376$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
>> Does anybody know whether the Nuhorizons board
>> (http://www.nuhorizons.com/products/xilinx/spartan3/development-board.html)
>> can be interfaced (easily) with the NET1 Ethernet peripheral board from
>> Digilent? (https://digilent.us/Sales/Peripheral.cfm)
>>
>> If so, could someone explain how it would be done?
>
> You'd probably have to physically translate the connectors.
>
> The next question is if the more limited user I/Os on the more
> feature-heavy board would be sufficient to support it.
>
> Once you commit to making translating connectors, there are also
> people who have interfaced old ISA ethernet cards to 8051's, PIC's
> etc, so presumably an FPGA interface would be possible.  Some of the
> chips are apparetnly 8-bit bus capable, which would cut down on the
> number of FPGA pins needed.  (Also remember that it's a bus, so the
> lines don't have to be dedicated to just this peripheral)
>
> Software drivers will need to be found or written...
>
> Chris