While browsing ebay I came across this -
Its a Spartan xl on a PCI board, and thats about all I know about it. It has no dedicated PCI interface IC, and I'm *really* not up to writing my own, so I thought I'd post it here for the benefeit of anyone who fancies a play around with one of these. I couldn't find much info about them, and the seller didnt bother emailing me back when I asked him for some, so yeah. I suppose it might be good for some of the hobbyists on here.
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Spartan XL is not supported any more by Xilinx (not from the mainline tools) so while $49 is good price for PCI-FPGA board bying anythign with spartan-XL means that you need to use antique software for development, and that all does not make sense any more.
cheapest PCI-FPGA board (and a very nice board) is MAX2 Starterkit from Altera that board costs $150 and has lot more than just PCI on board and comes with full documentation and sure can be used with latest Altera Software
Antti
Ah, fair enough. Ta for the tips, and the link.. I've been looking for a cheap (decent) PCI fpga board for a while now, I hadn't found anything that cheap before. :) Thanks :)
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there are hardly any other PCI-FPGA boards in that price range
both of those are based on S2 what is also old FPGA
Avnet has nice S3-PCI boards but they are a bit more expensive
so for the $150 you get MAX2 what very latest of family, you get PCI, FT245, SRAM and LCD so its really a nice package
I have special project page for MAX2 starterkit support
it isnt much there at the moment, only example how to wire connect the FT245 so the starterkit can be used as plain FT245 test board and simple USB-JTAG interface compatible NUSB (nahitafu USB) specs
I also have partially working clone of Altera USB Blaster, but that isnt finished (eg not working properly)
Antti
Nice, thanks for the info and site :)
I have my eyes on a
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