AVR-Chat

On Sep 6, 2004, at 9:38 AM, <r_reeves@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> I don't know much about them, but we use Xilinx dev boards to teach 
> VHDL etc at work (a uni, but I do the analogue labs.)  I had a quick 
> look at their website and found the Spartan II PCI development system. 
>  It's 250USD on their site.  Software I don't know about, but I 
> *think* they offer a free / cheap solution.  Not sure about that.  Pop 
> over to:
> http://www.xilinx.com/ and search for their DS-KIT-2S200.


Another vendor with interesting (and cheap) development boards and 
first rate support is here:

http://www.nuhorizons.com/fpga/index.html

Adding the three magic letters "PCI" will drive up the cost a lot, but 
learn on a cheap board, then rolling your own board is a reasonable 
approach.  I pretty sure you can do PCI with the Spartan II and III 
families.  NuHorizons also has a JTAG cable for $20 versus $100 direct 
from Xilinx.

Mike