On Tuesday 28 February 2006 19:25, Ray Heasman wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:16 -0500, Timothy Miller wrote: > > Howard found an FPGA-based graphics kit board on Xilinx's web site. > > It's based on a Spartan 2, not much memory, etc. It goes for $1500. > > I think it's on the avnet site below. > > > > Avnet (avnet.com) makes a bunch of FPGA-based boards. If this URL > > doesn't work for you, this is under EM Home > Products > Design > > Resource Center. > > > > http://www.em.avnet.com/evk/home/0,1719,RID%253D0%2526CID%253D0%2526CCD%2 > >53DUSA%2526SID%253D4742%2526DID%253DDF2%2526LID%253D18806%2526PVW%253D%252 > >6BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVK,00.html > > Hm. I was looking for FPGA dev boards with graphics output quite a while > ago for an internal project, and this was the best I found: > > http://www.em.avnet.com/evk/home/0,1719,RID%253D7554%2526CID%253D7816%2526C >CD%253DUSA%2526SID%253D7546%2526DID%253DADA%2526SRT%253D1%2526LID%253D7553%2 >526PVW%253D%2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVK,00.html > > The prices ranges from $400 to $600, depending on the size of Spartan-3 > you get. It also has a bunch of other neat stuff, like serial ports and > an Ethernet port.
(Yeah, I know the project is not charity bla bla bla :-) ) I am not a FPGA dev, but I am silently lurking the list and following the development, eagerly awaiting the first products come out of this project. I would be willing to spend a few bucks on a FPGA board, just to 'support the cause', even if it's not going to be that useful to me. kowing nothing about the costs involved, I would be somewhat comfortable with a figure of up to US$ 600, but would be willing to stretch up to to US$ 1000. Of course, to sweeten up this pill it would be really interesting to eventually have the card being useable as a video card of course, but also to let it be useable for other things, like accellerating encryption, running arm code, maybe a hardware-accelerated jvm? I know coding these things is out of the scope of this project, but if the board can be eventually put to some practical use, which can actually accelerate something, it would be nice. If the project goes well, and i am sure there are many open source enthusiasts hoping for it, I believe this might eventually happen. I don't know how hard would it be for a non-coder to be a 'bug-hunter user', much like open-source power user doesn't code, but files bugs to the developers. Maybe someone could carify me? Another thing is that an exchange program could be made for people interested in helping the project: I would buy the FPGA and then exchange it for an ASIC card, or send it back to you to receive the whole cost of the FPGA as rebates to buy cheaper ASIC cards. you would then be able to sell a refurbished FPGA card... > > I don't think the stuff you are looking at is all that representative of > what you can get if you look hard enough. > > Cheers, > Ray > > > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
