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My first Flash FPGA

Hi all,

I started a book witht that titled in 2006, but never finished, as I found the sources now, well it is still unfinished, but maybe it brings some smiles onto the faces of some FPGA developers, so am making the "unfinished" version available for direct download.

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eh, I wanted todo this, so now already instantly feeling better! and I do have a smile :) on my face right now.

Antti Lukats P.S. I make no promise or commitment to finish this book. I do have the source codes and projects described in the book though and I have worked some more with Flash FPGA's since 2006

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Antti
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...you got FIRED for missing 3 days of work due to a mixup in vacation scheduling? Wow.

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Ben Jackson AD7GD

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Ben Jackson

Hi Antti, :) from me. Is it Actel FPGA on the last page?

Regards,

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M.Veselic
Sigma Lab.
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Maki

YES

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Antti

Yes Ben,

got fired in such way that I "earned" additional 3 months jobless aid penalty (i.e. nothing paid) At the moment when i got fired i had 27 unused vaccation days, lost them as well.

but a :) smile can help, I have had some time to think about organizing my past projects (not yet doing it, its way too much)...

Antti

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Antti

It must be Fusion. I've never seen pricing for this family. The board is very cheap...

Regards,

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M.Veselic
Sigma Lab
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Maki

I wonder, too. Must have a strange boss. I thought you were still working in Germany (where it is not easy to get that fast out of the job).

Antti: some :) :) :) for you and your book.

bye Thomas

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Thomas Stanka

no, fusion is more expensive. the cheapest Actel is A3P060 (A3P030 think is still not in full production available)

060 is very small, so in order to achive the full functions needed some functions are moved from FPGA to small flash MCU, that gives best price for the functionality. when trying to implement SLOW functions that are easy for sub 1 USD MCU in the FPGA the FPGA add-on price (device upgrade penalty) is more than 1 USD

sub 6 USD FPGA designs are pretty much possible with FPGA's from all vendors it just depend on quantity.

MAX2-570 cost 3.50, well it's not called FPGA by altera, but I would say its small flash FPGA. From lattice I dont have pricing that would allow sub 6 USD designs, for Xilinx it sure would be possible, but maybe in really huge volumes only. in small-mid range volumes cheapest xilinx FPGA based design would have BOM cost >= 8 USD

Antti

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Antti

Yes, and what you can get in the low-end uC is advancing all the time. Fast SPI is common, so you can get a reasonable bandwidth into the FPGA and if you do not need Xtal precision, many uC now have CAL osc inbuilt

-jg

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Jim Granville

Hi Thomas,

the F=FChrers (gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer =3D=3D managing director) are good in ger= many at fast firing and I know from other people that both christmas-firing and vaccation- firing are popular.

I wasnt going to comment this thread, but right now I noticed that they also have not transferred the last paycheck either! That is I received the official paper about my january salary from the bookkeeping, but the money has not arrived.

based on that I have re-allocated the donations I have received for the e-book for food for my older son who lives separatly (I just transferred my paypal rest account to him - about 30eur).

Antti and thanks all for the smilies!

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Antti

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