9 Dec
2008
9 Dec
'08
12:26 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, but what about the software to compile your design (as a scheamtic
or VHDL) into the data to program into the chip? How much does that cost
_including the machine to run it on_
-tony
Well, the $20.00 requires a machine to. Probably the same kind. We
need to be fair here. As for the SW, Both Altera and Xilinx (and Atmel,
for their CPLD parts) offer free tools (OK, not sure if they offer the
tools on all platforms, but I suspect the TI tooling is Windows specific
as well. The tools might run in Wine and I am sure they will run on
VMWare, if you're willing to go that route)
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than $20. Compared to the price of admission fee for,
say, FPGA,
it's a real bargain.
You can program xilinx and altera FPGAs for less than $20 if you have a
parallel port. Do a search on "byteblaster" and be happy :)