[hpsdr] Lionheart ready

[H. Gruchow]

Hi Cecil and the group,

yeah, the price is not bad if you reckon that they had to buy an official USB vendor ID 
from the US for the incredible amount of approx. 2000 US$ (which they have).
So imho, you are not heading there, you already have arrived!!!!

Yes indead, the site is very interesting because for some of their other products like the 
Spartan II FPGA board they are providing a lot of technical details including schematics 
of the board as well as a programming environment.

Phil, what I find a nice idea is that they have brought out the i/o pins to headers around 
the FPGA. That makes connecting of measuring equipment easy while the board is working 
standalone or if you are working with a fully loaded ATLAS board with no additional 
connection available.

I totally agree with what Eric said earlier in one of his postings. This project is so 
fascinating that it has brought me back to electronic life (so to say). I have not in a 
long time read so much literature (data sheets, user guides etc.) about the whole field of 
new possibilities for SDR discovering something new every day.

By the way: the price of the Lionheart will stay well below 100 bucks including the board 
as far as I can see from Phil's design.

73
Horst
DL6KBF

KD5NWA schrieb:
> Mighty expensive, the price of cradle to grave welfare system, but have 
> no fear we are headed there ourselves, got to buy those votes somehow. 
> Politicians, it should be against the law, but who wrote the laws?
> 
> At 03:43 PM 4/8/2006, H. Gruchow wrote:
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>>
>> Hi group,
>>
>> http://www.needles.de/pics/fpga.jpg
>>
>> of course, our Lionheart is not ready yet. But just a picture of a 
>> board sold in Germany
>> for 399 EUR. It contains a Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGA plus FX2 USB2 
>> interface. All I/O pins
>> are brought out to a female DIN 96-pin connector. But unfortunately 
>> the pin-out does not
>> match the ATLAS board. The FPGA is programmable over USB but also 
>> contains a JTAG
>> connector. They guarantee a through-put of min. 30MB/s max. 38MB/s 
>> (depending on the pc
>> speed) over USB.
>>
>> Some documentation is available from their website (in english):
>>
>> http://www.cesys.com
>>
>>
>> have fun!!!
>>
>> 73
>> Horst
>> DL6KBF
>>
>>
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> Cecil Bayona
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