[sdiy] Xilinx 3E board comments

[James Patchell]

Everybody wants to know that...

The number of "Gates" a device actually has is controversial...and differs 
between Altera and Xilinx...and they each compete to make it look like 
their devices are bigger...(no pun intended :-)


At 10:46 AM 6/9/2006 -0400, Jeff Farr wrote:
>Just looking over the information at xilinx.  What is the difference
>between "System Gates" and "Logic Gates"?  Are system gates the ones
>used to "reprogram" the connections between the logic gates?  Also,
>the Ethernet connection is particularly interesting to me but the
>datasheet implies that it is really meant to be used with the
>microblaze, can the pico handle network processing?
>
>I'm dreaming up a simple sampler module that uses a network connection
>to talk with the computer..  I think the onboard ADC's could provide
>for an interesting "voltage controlled" sampler ;)

         -Jim
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