Re: which one among the available FPGAs is best for a fresher?
- From: "John Adair" <removethisthenleavejea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:35:41 -0000
For anyone that's interested the ?75 is 75 Euros.
Carriage has recently dropped to all locations and we are working to drop in
further. I believe US next day carriage (Customs etc allowing) will drop to
same as the EEC courier rate this week TBC.
John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Raggedstone1. The 75 Euro Spartan-3 Development
Board.
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk
"John Adair" <removethisthenleavejea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Well I better put our case when mentioning prices. Raggedstone1 is US $90
, ?75, £50.
If you don't have a scrap motherboard and power supply it can be bundled
with the PCI I/O Header that allow stand alone use (not in PC and gives 50
extra 5V tolerant I/O). Bundle is $117 (discounts on quantities) and it is
a bigger chip (XC3S400) that the standard starter kit has. If you are a
student or University we can offer up to a XC3S2000 (RS1-2000) on the
board at surprisingly good prices. There may be extended lead times on the
bigger chip fits but we will see how popular they are to the target group
and maybe start to hold more stock. The RS1-1500 is being made for stock
and would be the recommend "large" chip version due to the support of the
XC3S1500 in Xilinx Webpack tools. The XC3S2000 is not covered by Webpack.
Find Raggedstone1 here
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/moelbryn/raggedstone1.html .
John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Hollybush1. The PC104+ Spartan-3 Development
Board.
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk
"Jerry Coffin" <jerry.coffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1139723169.255425.58910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
chaitu11311@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
hi, i am new to this field and studying my under graduate course on
FPGAs. to perform experiments practically i am planning to buy one
chip. so please suggest me which one among the available FPGAs suit me
so that i get in touch with it and also suggest me any softwares
available to interface the same with my pc.
Unless you're planning to do a fair amount of work as a technician, you
probably want a pre-fabbed board rather than just a chip.
Xilinx has a Spartan 3 starter kit for about $100 here:
http://tinyurl.com/7pnsk
Altera has a Max II development kit for about $150 here:
http://tinyurl.com/76k5h
Lattice has a number of development boards around $100-200 available
here:
http://tinyurl.com/9ks2s
When/if you try to enter their online store, they'll ask for a user
name and password -- but if you cancel, it'll let you in (and I haven't
seen a place to sign up to get a user name or password either).
Enterpoint has a couple of nice looking boards available here:
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/moelbryn/minican.html
Unfortunately, while the prices are pretty nice, shipping to the US is
a bit on the steep side.
Avnet has a fairly extensive list of development boards available here:
http://tinyurl.com/43ozs
FPGA4FUN.com has a number of (mostly Altera-based) boards available at
quite reasoanble prices here:
http://www.knjn.com/ShopBoards.html
That's far from an exhaustive list, but it's probably more than enough
to overwhelm you for now! :-)
One final note: keep in mind that you'll have to develop controllers
for most of what's on the board to actually be able to use them. The
connectors for PCI, Ethernet, USB, etc., each need to be driven
correctly to do anything useful. It's pretty easy to develop and/or
find cores for things like serial ports, but quite a bit more difficult
(and/or expensive) to deal with PCI (for one example). Likewise with
things like on-board memory -- just for example, a big DDR2 SDRAM may
sound sexy, but be prepared for a fair amount of work before you can
get data into or out of it dependably.
I haven't played with anywhere close to all of these, but of the ones I
have played with, the Spartan 3 starter kit probably has the most
accessible peripherals. Pretty much when you decide to do something
that needs to use the memory, serial port, LEDs, etc., you just do it
and it works. You could download and use any of several UART cores for
the serial port (for example) but I've never bothered -- I suspect it's
probably close to as much work to figure out how to use somebody else's
UART as it is to write at least a simple one of your own (though
somebody else's might be more efficient).
--
Later,
Jerry.
The universe is a figment of its own imagination.
.
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