[sdiy] Verilog Uart Done

[Rainer Buchty]

>They are having seminars around the country and you can get deals on both 
>development hardware and software.

I can highly recommend taking such a seminar; also Xilinx itself does 
workshops, and it's really interesting to see how one can do "DIY SoC" 
at home.

>They are selling a eval kit for doing MicroBlaze embedded processors on
>a Spartan 3S1500 with the XBase ISE and EDK for $700 (regular price of
>about $1900)...

In case one already has EDK (or wants to do it "the hard way" using 
ISE) and therefore doesn't want to go for the Memec board, I can also 
recommend the Suzaku boards from Atmark Techno
	http://www.atmark-techno.com/en/product/suzaku.html

Take one of those, just add serial DACs, and have the worlds smallest 
synth up and running, which can even be controlled via Ethernet.

Rainer (still waiting for instrument vendors widely adopting Embedded 
	Ethernet for sound editing and sound bank up/download)