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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. A lot of education for the money... |
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Reply by ●September 12, 20042004-09-12
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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. > You can download the picoblaze for free anyway. Just have to agree to the usual license (only use on xilinx products). Alex |
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Reply by ●September 12, 20042004-09-12
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Oh, I quite agree - I have both boards and that Spartan III is very nice to work with. A little small at 200k gates but still very useful. But sometimes you just need glue and I can think of several examples over the past couple of years where a CPLD would have been just the device to use. --- In , Alex Gibson <alxx@t...> 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/Dev elopment+Boards/Spartan-3+Boards > > Quoting rtstofer <rstofer@p...>: > > > 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. > > > > You can download the picoblaze for free anyway. > Just have to agree to the usual license > (only use on xilinx products). > > Alex |
Reply by ●September 12, 20042004-09-12
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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. >> >> > > |
