Hi, I just saw the following article that claims that Xilinx has unveiled a PCI Express starter kit based on Spartan-3 with a list price of $349.
This seems interesting, has anyone heard anything more about this board? (There does not seem to be any information on Xilinx' website.)
/Andreas
HI Andreas, I have been to the SILICA seminar on low cost PCI a couple of weeks back and we got to play with the first eight of the production, the board was fairly basic and has some leds a bit of ram and a S31000 plus a simple dac for Video, not much else really apart from the xilinx PCIe core takes just over half the chip, but it does work had a simple program running on the board in the LAB.
Board is produced by AVNET for XILINX.
REGARDS
This avnet PCIe board was supposed to be using S3e and it had target date june 2005.
looks like it is finally ready! there are WAU 8 boards made! maybe Avnet can make some more til june 2006 so the delay would be only
1 year.Antti
Hi, At the seminar it was claimed that 1000+ boards were in production so we will see when it is released.
REGARDS
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