I've seen the future of DIY (was RE: [sdiy] Tiny FPU chip/16 bit micros?)

[James Patchell]

That is why God created Verilog... :-)

I am thinking of getting another Spartan III eval board.  I have the Memec 
board with a 400K part on it, but the Xilinx Starter Board (from Nu 
Horizons) with the 8 color VGA output looks like it would be fun.

I still have plans for making a monster digital synth in an FPGA.  You can 
literally put thousands of oscillators into one of these parts.

And, if you want to go Hog Wild, and have a fat wallet, one of the New 
Virtex IV parts has 512 18x18 Multiplier Accumulators in it that will run 
at 300MHz...that is an unbelievable amount of computing horse power.

At 08:54 AM 2/8/2005 +0000, Paul Maddox wrote:
>Achim,
>
> > Did they already tell you the price and annual fees of the ISE
> > development tools or is all of this really working with WebPack now?
>
>last time i looked, the webpack supports all devices upto 400Kgate.
>
>I've had a spartanII 200Kgate device for ages, and its damn good fun to work
>with, that said, VHDL is a bit of a headache to learn.
>
>Paul

         -Jim
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