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

[Thorsten Klose]

just for the case it hasn't been mentioned yet: there is another good-value
board available which is based on the Altera Cyclone:
http://www.futureelectronics.com/promos/cyclone/

>From the promotions:
"Cyclone™ devices are available for immediate volume shipments, 
delivering higher performance at a lower price than Xilinx Spartan-3
devices. "

The price: US $49

Best Regards, Thorsten.


> 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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