[sdiy] Avnet Spartan-3A Dev Board - USB-UART Bridge Info

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net> wrote:
>Scott,
>
>Thanks for sharing your findings. Too bad that the FPGA-Synth list is so 
>inactive these days and no one posts FPGA-related stuff there any 
>longer. Seems like you and Jim Patchell are the only folks pushing this 
>forward lately, so I'm glad it gets some discussion on SDIY.

Jim was the one who turned me on to FPGAs.  He helped demystify them for me.  

In my opinion, an FPGA is a very optimal design environment for high performance, high
fidelity, high complexity musical synthesis.

I like to post here because you never know who it might inspire.

>>> Finally, I found some posts on the Avnet forum for the 
>>> board and others had discovered the reversed pins.
>
>Which Avnet forum are you looking at? I've been on the Google newsgroup 
>for the S3A board for the last few months and haven't seen any mention 
>of this:
>
>http://groups.google.com/group/avnet-spartan-3a-eval-kit
>
>Is there another discussion area I'm not aware of?

That's the correct forum.  I didn't find what I wanted in the thread list displayed,
so I searched with the search-this-group button.  Something like "USB UART", and I got
hits for older threads that weren't listed.  In those I found out about the reversed
naming of the pins.  So I had to actually try to do it, fail and then finally do just
the right search to find the solution.  Whew!  (c;

>
>Thanks,

Thank you Eric, you've been a huge help to me and my learning curve.

-- ScottG
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