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Hi, I am new to FPGA design. I am learning verilog and modelsim now. I want to implement my design for personal interest in future. Any company of FPGA is OK for me. The most important is not expensive and easy to get the resource personally (eg. FPGA, download cable, programmer....) I live in Hong Kong. It seems that it is difficult to buy FPGA and FPGA board in Hong Kong for retail. I know that I can buy in internet with Credit card payment, but I afraid that it is not security. Any other method suggested for me? Thank you. Reala |
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I want to buy FPGA and FPGA board
Started by ●August 29, 2002
Reply by ●August 30, 20022002-08-30
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Internet purchasing is probably more secure than giving your credit card to the kid in a restraunt or at a store. Cheers Jeremy Manfield Chow wrote: >Hi, > >I am new to FPGA design. I am learning verilog and modelsim now. >I want to implement my design for personal interest in future. >Any company of FPGA is OK for me. The most important is not expensive and easy to get the resource personally (eg. FPGA, download cable, programmer....) >I live in Hong Kong. It seems that it is difficult to buy FPGA and FPGA board in Hong Kong for retail. I know that I can buy in internet with Credit card payment, but I afraid that it is not security. Any other method suggested for me? >Thank you. > >Reala >To post a message, send it to: >To unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > >">http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > |
Reply by ●September 1, 20022002-09-01
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Hi Reala, Can I suggest the BurchED B5-Spartan2+ board, as a low cost way to get a large "300K gate" Xilinx device in a development system, which includes the download cable, and works with the free WebPACK software. http://www.burched.com.au/B5Spartan2.html It is US$179 (Hong Kong Dollars$1,414). We accept all methods of payment, including credit card by fax, and even a personal cheque written in Hong Kong Dollars, in the mail, is fine. Many of our customers are using the units for self-education, and the large device is useful for experimenting with many CPU and system-on-chip designs. For connecting peripherals to the board, we have a product which was actually originally inspired, quite some time ago, by the contributors in this fpga-cpu email group: http://www.burched.com.au/B5PeripheralConnectors.html To get started with the WebPACK software, we have a tutorial which you can download for free at http://www.burched.com.au/appnotes.html It has step-by-step instructions on how to download the latest version of the WebPACK software from the Xilinx website, and how to create and compile new projects. Hope that helps:) Have fun:) Best regards Tony Burch http://www.BurchED.com Low cost FPGA boards, for System-On-Chip prototyping and education ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfield Chow" <> To: <> Sent: Friday, 30 August 2002 12:17 Subject: [fpga-cpu] I want to buy FPGA and FPGA board > Hi, > > I am new to FPGA design. I am learning verilog and modelsim now. > I want to implement my design for personal interest in future. > Any company of FPGA is OK for me. The most important is not expensive and easy to get the resource personally (eg. FPGA, download cable, programmer....) > I live in Hong Kong. It seems that it is difficult to buy FPGA and FPGA board in Hong Kong for retail. I know that I can buy in internet with Credit card payment, but I afraid that it is not security. Any other method suggested for me? > Thank you. > > Reala > |
Reply by ●September 3, 20022002-09-03
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Manfield Chow wrote: > I am new to FPGA design. I am learning verilog and modelsim now. > I want to implement my design for personal interest in future. > Any company of FPGA is OK for me. The most important is not expensive > and easy to get the resource personally (eg. FPGA, download cable, > programmer....) > I live in Hong Kong. It seems that it is difficult to buy FPGA and > FPGA board in Hong Kong for retail. I know that I can buy in internet > with Credit card payment, but I afraid that it is not security. Any > other method suggested for me? Jan Gray has link to a number of FPGA evaluation boards (http://www.fpgacpu.org/links.html#FPGA%20prototyping%20boards), unfortunately a number of them are out of date. I can recommend XESS' $279 XSA-100 which comes with an Xilinx Spartan2, 16MB of SDRAM, PROM, VGA-out, PS2-interface, and more. XESS has extensive support on the web. (All Xilinx FPGA's up to and including the Spartan series are supported by the free WebPack tool chain). I recently stumbled upon another very interesting board that is the first I have seen that looks like a better deal than XESS's XSA-100: http://www.insight-electronics.com/cgi-bin/bvutf8/memec/scripts/local/mc_loc_b.jsp?Div=INSIGHT&Reg=AMERICAS&Country=UNITED_STATES&Lang=EN&EDOID7428&Manu=XILINX Features: - Price: $250 (XSA-100 $275) - Form factor: PCI card (with full PCI connection) - Memory: 2M 32bit SDRAM (half of XSA-100, but twice as wide) - FPGA: Spartan-II XC2S200 (twice the gates of the XC2S100 of XSA-100) - Clocks: 2 (twice....) - ISP PROM - Two 7-segment LED (twice ..blah blah) - buttons, DIP switches, regulators, RS-232, JTAG, I/O connectors, etc I wish they had a bigger FPGA and more memory though (for a higher price of course). /Tommy |
