[sdiy] FPGA Synth Music

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 1 Mar 2010, at 15:48, Rainer Buchty wrote:

> 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

Cool! A breadboard-friendly FPGA! I like it.

T.