Xilinx $99 Spartan-3 kit

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The Xilinx online store has stock will ship boards to practically anywhere on this planet. Payment is by credit card so you receive the exchange rate offered by your bank. However, shipping and local taxes do apply.

Any difference charged by your local distributor is likely import duties, taxes, and fees charged by the applicable governing body (pesky governments).

--------------------------------- Steven K. Knapp Applications Manager, Xilinx Inc. General Products Division Spartan-3/II/IIE FPGAs

--------------------------------- Spartan-3: Make it Your ASIC

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Just wonder - Is there any chance the same board will be loaded with a bigger chip ?

lukasz

Steven K. Knapp wrote:

Alightly off-topic, but it would be really really helpful if the online store could move into the 20th century and start selling FPGAs. No need to stock all speed grades or compete on price.

And, as I've said before, if X management don't want to handle this, subcontract it to Amazon or DigiKey or whoever. Just make it possible for designers to order prototype quantities without going through the distributor tarpit - it would help your overall business.

I see the device used is a XC3S200-4FT256. You can get XC3S400 and XC3S1000 parts in that package according to my datasheet. I bet it'll cost more than

"A million gates for twelve dollars", remember :)

[and a magazine I looked at today claimed the 70kLUT Cyclone II is $70 in those asymptotic quantities. Sadly, I doubt there are 10^5 FPGA hobbyists on the planet ...]

Tom

Anyone know if the software that comes with it works on Linux? I looked at the site, but didn't see any info on supported platforms for this board.

Phil

Phil Tomson wrote: : In article , : Leon Heller wrote: : >Xilinx has a Spartan-3 kit selling for $99, via their web site. Price from : >Insight (UK) will be 70 GBP, but they don't know when they will be in stock. : >

: Anyone know if the software that comes with it works on Linux? I looked : at the site, but didn't see any info on supported platforms for this : board.

It's not impossible to run ISE under a recent Wine. Programming with impact however not possible.

Bye

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Uwe Bonnes                bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt

Phil Tomson wrote: : In article , : Leon Heller wrote: : >Xilinx has a Spartan-3 kit selling for $99, via their web site. Price from : >Insight (UK) will be 70 GBP, but they don't know when they will be in stock. : >

: Anyone know if the software that comes with it works on Linux? I looked : at the site, but didn't see any info on supported platforms for this : board.

It's not impossible to run ISE under a recent Wine. Programming with impact however is not possible.

Bye

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Uwe Bonnes                bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt

Good point. The kit comes complete with both the Xilinx ISE Foundation 6.2i Foundation and the ISE 6.2i WebPack CD-ROMs.

ISE Foundation 6.2i Evaluation

ISE WebPACK 6.2i

The software provided runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP only.

However, the full-up Xilinx ISE Foundation software has limited support for Linux (RedHat 8.0).

--------------------------------- Steven K. Knapp Applications Manager, Xilinx Inc. General Products Division Spartan-3/II/IIE FPGAs

--------------------------------- Spartan-3: Make it Your ASIC

Any idea what keeps it from running under Wine?

Are you saying that ISE doesn't run under Wine, but programming does work?

Phil

Since you work at Xilinx... Any idea if a Linux version will become available? This looks like a cool kit, but I really don't want to have to get Windows to use it.

If not, then perhaps it could be fixed to run under Wine? (another post said it currently doesn't run under Wine)

Phil

Phil Tomson wrote: : In article , : Uwe Bonnes wrote: : >Phil Tomson wrote: : >: In article , : >: Leon Heller wrote: : >: >Xilinx has a Spartan-3 kit selling for $99, via their web site. Price from : >: >Insight (UK) will be 70 GBP, but they don't know when they will be in stock. : >: >

: >

: >: Anyone know if the software that comes with it works on Linux? I looked : >: at the site, but didn't see any info on supported platforms for this : >: board. : >

: >It's not impossible to run ISE under a recent Wine. Programming with impact : >however is not possible. : >

: Any idea what keeps it from running under Wine?

: Are you saying that ISE doesn't run under Wine, but programming does work?

ISE runs to great extends. Impact can't be used, as for the parallel port access, the external WinDriver interface is used. WinDriver is a windows kernel driver and can be run on Wine.

Bye

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Uwe Bonnes                bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt

Forgive the me too aspect of this post, but I'd like to see a bigger device too! (I guess you'll only make it if lots of people ask for it.)

Cheers, JonB

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for small quantities.

-- Georgi

I ordered one of these yesterday, received it today. All in all, it's a nice little testing platform.

One thing to note: my board came with ES silicon. I downloaded the errata from the Xilinx site, and saw nothing I was particularly concerned with: a couple of minor DCM bugs and a few other piddly things (yet other bugs have been promoted to features, and are described in the data sheet). If you plan to buy the board, you may want to take a look at the ES errata sheet first.

Bob Perlman Cambrian Design Works

I would avoid Nu Horizons at all costs.

I would avoid Nu Horizons at all costs.

I would avoid Nu Horizons at all costs.