Trenz Electronic provides a nice, very small Spartan-3 module and a carrier board with all the stuff to build a complete computer with an FPGA. Not that cheap, but a complete solution:
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Almost complete... You need a CPU. If you like Java you can now use JOP on this board. Trenz provided a board for the porting of JOP and here it is: Download JOP from
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and follow these Steps:
- Compile the ISE project under ../xilinx/trenz * Download JOP to the board * Connect a serial cabel from the board to your PC * Open a command prompt in ../java/target * Change the COM-port in doit.bat * type:
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Now your first Java program runns on JOP/Spartan-3 Trenz board!
Martin
---------------------------------------------- JOP - a Java Processor core for FPGAs:
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