[sdiy] FPGA Synth Music

[Rainer Buchty]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:

> They don't want me to make a synthesizer out of the board where I need 
> to buy hundreds of them.  I'd have to bet that Xilynx subsidizes the 
> boards.  I'm not complaining, that's just the rules they had when I 
> bought mine.  I have two, they are great for the money, IMO a rather 
> powerful IC - and it's fairly low end.

How many pins do you need?

If it's a maximum of 48, then the GODIL FPGA board of OHO Elektronik 
distributed via Trenz Elektronik might come in handy:

 	http://www.oho-elektronik.de/

Manual at
 	http://www.oho-elektronik.de/pics/UM_GODIL.pdf

Also a nice piece for repairing/cloning old DIL parts.

Doesn't contain off-chip RAM, of course.

Rainer