OFF LIST: Re: [sdiy] Spartan III proposal...

[James Patchell]

That is for the Embedded Soft Processor Core...I am not going to be using 
that...I am putting an ATMega128 on the board which won't expire unless you 
connect the power up backwards.  I use the Webpack software (which is what 
you actually design the FPGA's with), and it will last forever....Oh, the 
60 days might also be for the ISE Foundation software, which is the package 
they sell (for big bucks), again, we are not interested in that...unless 
you want to spend big bucks...


At 11:49 AM 2/25/2005 +1030, Batz Goodfortune wrote:
>Y-ellow Jim.
>         I'd been toying with the idea of getting one of these things 
> also. Though my brain has been too fried of late to cope with the 
> details. One thing I did note in the fine print is something about the 
> software being free. But only for 60 days. What's with that? Does that 
> only apply if you download it off the net without the eval board or is 
> that how it is, then you owe 'em a sqillion more dollars?
>
>The idea of an 8 port ADC sub sys appeals to me but I don't have a use for 
>it any more. Well maybe in the future but what I really need is digital 
>I/O that actually works for my yamaha desk. I got shafted pretty badly on 
>that one.
>
>Perhaps you could modularize it like a simstick board or something?
>
>Also, was I dreaming when I read somewhere about an evil board that had an 
>ethernet port on it instead of most of that other gush?
>
>But without having to put my brain in gear too much at the moment, I'd be 
>interested in what the deal actually is with that software.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Be absolutely Icebox.
>
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