On 2016-02-26 23:57, Tom Van Baak wrote: > Gerhard Hoffmann wrote: >> I have never used PICs and given their life cycle it's a bad time to jump on >> the train. >> Not now when I'm just converting everything to ARM. > Hi Gerhard, > > The 12F-series that I use for the PIC dividers is very solid. These are sold > by the billions. Not sure what train you're talking about. Don't confuse ARM > and x86 chips du jour with something like an 8-pin 8-bit PIC. For more info > on the PIC dividers see: > http://leapsecond.com/pic/picdiv.htm > http://leapsecond.com/pic/picdiv-list.htm > > Thanks for posting the sample Xilinx code. That's intriguing. So if I started > from scratch, what does it take to turn your firmware source code into a > working chip? Are any of the chips as small or as cheap as a SMT or DIP PIC?
Hi Tom / Gerhard / Magnus et all. I have been using Altera parts, primarily because the finished boards on *bay are so cheap. I'm still a beginner in VHDL , but can do a little .... I have both Xilinx ISE & Altera Quartus installed on my linux mint 17 (x64) , and both works ok. With a few install quirks. VHDL is quite the same for both , and only the timing constraint magic is different. Gerhard would'nt a 240 MC 7$ cpld board , or a small 14$ FPGA be a nice base for some of your timing magic ? 240 MC CPLD http://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-NEW-EPM240-Altera-MAX-II-CPLD-Development-Board-/272086159418 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Altera-MAX-II-EPM240-CPLD-Development-Board-Experiment-Board-Learning-Breadboard-/181436966398 Small fpga http://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-Altera-CycloneII-EP2C5T144-FPGA-Mini-Development-Board-/272086171657 Altera usb programmer (Jtag) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Altera-Mini-Usb-Blaster-Cable-For-CPLD-FPGA-NIOS-JTAG-Altera-Programmer-/272097471982 Rgds CFO - Denmark _______________________________________________ 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.
