At 01:29 PM 12/1/2007, you wrote: >The lack of an FX2 or similar USB chip on the Darnaw board makes me wonder >how you're supposed to program it.
I don't know about for Xilinx, but for Altera, a Byteblaster cable is pretty easy to make. Low cost varieties exist on eBay too. In fact we use a USB Blaster clone in the lab here from http://www.minford.ca which is a lot cheaper than the Altera version. Currently I seem to be engaged pretty much full-time on some Cyclone-II with NIOS-II projects and I prefer to have the USB-Blaster _NOT_ on the board. Altera have also released a new Cyclone-III module for NIOS-II with a touch screen LCD from only $399 - which includes the USB-Blaster. > These are nice alternatives if you don't >need a full 'starter kit' board like the ones from Digilent: I decided to try and play with Xilinx parts early this year, but after buying a couple of Digilent boards I found the Xilinx tool-chain something of a pig to use. Maybe I am just too familiar with the Altera tools, so we sold the Digilent boards on eBay. >http://www.knjn.com Jean's stuff is good. I have used a number of his small boards (all Altera - we don't do any Xilinx) and they have worked out very well. John Day VE3CJO >The same guy who sells these boards also hosts a good FPGA-specific project >site/forum: >http://www.fpga4fun.com > >-- john, KE5FX > > > > > > Ulrich Bangert wrote: > > > For that reason I have decided to buy me this smart device and > > > experiment with it: > > > > > http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/moelbryn/darnaw1.html > > > > Wow. That "connector" looks nasty. What the heck are you supposed to do > > with that? > > > > Let me suggest an alternative. I've used several of the FPGA and CPLD > > boards made by Digilent. I have been pleased by all of their products so > > far. > > > > http://www.digilentinc.com/ > > > > The 3E starter board is $149. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.12/1163 - Release Date: >12/1/2007 12:05 PM _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
