Daniel Phillips wrote:
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.
Totally.
It's also noteworthy that this board appears to the Xilinx' own Sparten
III reference board. The board design documentation appears to have been
written by Xilinx itself. More great stuff.
Spartan-3 Starter Kit Board User Guide UG130 (v1.0) April 26 2004
http://www.digilentinc.com/Data/Products/S3BOARD/S3BOARD-rm.pdf
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.
Right. Hopefully at least a linux method of interacting with the JTAG
interface can be found. Even if the rest has to be done under WINE or by
purchasing the Xilinx ISE 6 for Linux.
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.
Is it too early to be making plans for my ATI 9xxx board? :)
Another link for a book I've enjoyed so far today.
It's looks like the Rubini & Corbet of the Spartan 3 Family.
PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DESIGN: QUICK START HANDBOOK
by Karen Parnell and Nick Mehta
http://www.xilinx.com/publications/products/cpld/logic_handbook.pdf
Jeff
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