3 Nov
2013
3 Nov
'13
5:26 p.m.
On Nov 3, 2013, at 15:39 , Robert Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
BeagleBone is certainly looking like a good candidate.
If I need to
supplement with a FPGA, what is the smallest/cheapest development board
option? DE0-Nano seems to be the cheapest I have found so far.
I haven't looked into off the shelf dev boards much since I expected to make my own
PCB anyway. My first impulse is to try a Xilinx Spartan 6, out of force of habit. The
largest one available in a TQFP package costs around $15 at Digi-Key and has 64kx9 of
dual-ported RAM blocks if I recall correctly. I haven't thought things out far enough
to determine if the gate count is large enough.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/