On Thursday 24 February 2005 06:57, Jeff Carr wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Excuse me, it has a VGA interface. But 1/128th of the RAM. > > Yes, I just thought it was a great proof of concept. It certainly > doesn't have the horse power needed. > > I have no experience with FPGA's; the programming methods, ways of > doing things, verilog, VHDL, etc. Basically - I don't know anything > about them. So I want to get something that I can play with that: > > 1) Doesn't cost a lot > 2) I can work with entirely from Linux > 3) Have all the source for > 4) Is as close to possible to a PCI FPGA video card > > I'd like to first get used to the JTAG interface to these cards and > bringing up the the chip for the first time. See how much I can do > with a known working board.
I take that back, at $95 and with a Spartan III + VGA interface it's hard to go wrong here. At least it would be a good way to find out first hand what kind of pain is involved in getting a tool chain running. The specs of this board only reinforce the probability that if Timothy can put together a card with 10 times the gates and 100 times the memory (DRAM vs SRAM) priced only 50-100% more, it will be a cult hit in its own right, let alone the advantages for ASIC development. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
