[hpsdr] Training wheels for MaxII?

[John B. Stephensen]

Is also nice that the free tools support the XC5VLX50 which should be
available on an evaluation board soon. The Virtex 5 is expensive but does
very fast DSP using a 1 volt 65 nm core.

73,

John
KD6OZH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyle Johnson" <kk7p at wavecable.com>
To: "John B. Stephensen" <kd6ozh at comcast.net>
Cc: "Jim Miller" <jim at jtmiller.com>; "HPSDR" <hpsdr at hpsdr.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 03:40 UTC
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Training wheels for MaxII?


> > $6 is expensive. Altera EPM3032 and EPM3064 CPLDs are $1 and $2 in unit
> > quantities and you can still get them in PLCC pakages that fit in
sockets
> > that mount on 0.1" grid perf. board.
>
> The MAX II device we are using is roughly equivalent to a 192 Macrocell
> CPLD.  It is really a small FPGA with 240 logic elements, is SRAM based
> and has an on-chip Flash for self-booting at power up.  It also consumes
> a small fraction of the power of the older MAX series parts (or
> equivalent XC9500 parts from Xilinx).
>
> But I'm with you on the Xilinx FPGAs.  And since the tools are free...
>
> 73,
>
> Lyle KK7P
>


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