Cyclone II EP2C70 dev kits, where are they?

Tommy,

Lattice is shipping a 50k LUT fpga in our ECP2 family. Let me know where you are located and I'll push to get you hooked up with SW. Our ECP2 family has built in DQS support for both DDR1 & DDR2. Email me at snipped-for-privacy@latticesemi.com

Look at the EP2C35F672 based development kits and swap the device. You will loose around 50 I/O's on the EP2C70 but if you are lucky the DDR interfaces remain OK (did not check this)

Happy soldering !

Karl.

I checked... The Altera DSP development kit is made for 2C35 2C50 and

2C70. The additional I/O's on the 2C35 and 2C50 are not used and you should be able to do this trick.

Karl.

I requested a quote from Altera with the EP2C70 soldered on the EP2C35 DSP development board , but they were not interested. I also requested a qoute from TerAsic , but they also did not respond. I thought that removing the EP2C35 from the board would be too risky. However, I did buy the Terasic DE2 EP2C35 board with the EP2C35 for $495.

Bill Hanna

Thanks for checking Karl, but I know I could not do this myself and paying for someone to do the pull and then add the 2C70 is starting to sound expensive. I can't justify spending a whole lot more than $1000.

I'm looking into the promising LatticeECP2, but it sure would have been nice if Xilinx would add support for the 3S5000 (Xilinx, hint hint :)

If anyone knows of any 2C70 boards, do let us know.

Tommy

You're lucky !

The Lead-Free / RoHS compliant version of the Cyclone II based DSP board will be with the EP2C70 !

Kind regards,

Karl.

Thanks Karl, that sounds very promising. I couldn't find any info on it alas. Do you have any idea of when and how much?

Cheers, Tommy

Here are the details. The DSP kit should also become 2C70, but the webpage is not updated yet...

Cheers, Karl.

Very cool, the very first kit with the 2C70 :-) It looks like I'll have to roll my own extender card to get network, mass storage, and kbd/mouse.

Thanks Karl.

Tommy