Re: [oc] Hardware

[Shehryar Shaheen <shehryar.shaheen@ul.ie>]

Hi,
    You can check out the following site

http://www.insight-electronics.com

(Development Kits -> Xilinx)


The Spartan-II FPGA Kit is about 280 Euros (inc VAT) this is about 243 USD ,
it includes the WebPack Software (it is free but they have put it on CD just
for convinience)
and a low cost JTAG cable for programming.

Their CPLD kits are also quite low cost and if u just want to get started u
can start with a CPLD kit.(that is your choice ofcourse)

Other methods of programming an FPGA are using Serial EEPROMs but for that u
would require Serial EEPROMs and a PROM programmer.

Regards

Shehryar


PS.   I am not an employe of Insight nor am I affiliated with them in any
way




----- Original Message -----
From: "Matts Kivik" <kivik@firstlinux.net>
To: <cores@opencores.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:07 AM
Subject: RE: [oc] Hardware


> Ok, this web-pack ISE software from xilinx sounds interesting.
> Can you recommend a suitable JTAG programmer at a good price ?
>
> Is there no way to download the program via a serial connector or
something, I am afraid that the JTAG-programmer is expensive ?
>
>
>
> --- "Thilo Jeremias" <jeremias@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> >I think, that the wrong question,
> >it all depends on your constraints:
> >price per unit,
> >power requirements
> >performance needs.
> >
> >(ahh and of course personal preferences -- like apple & PC)
> >
> >you get JTAG-HW+ chips + software from: micrel,altera,xilinx,cypress and
> >others....
> >you can get dedicated SW (in the range up to some 100k$) from mentor and
> >others.
> >
> >A cheap & relativly easy to start with kit is: xilinx web-pack ISE
> >www.xilinx.com (for free)
> >but the bigger virtexes are fairly expensive though and you prbably need
to
> >buy SW then...
> >
> >did that confused you ?
> >
> >:-)
> >Thilo
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-cores@opencores.org [mailto:owner-cores@opencores.org]On
> >> Behalf Of Mark
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:51 AM
> >> To: cores@opencores.org
> >> Subject: [oc] Hardware
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What are some common chips and programmers you guys use in
> >> testing/implementation.?
> >>
> >>
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