30 Aug
2000
30 Aug
'00
2:20 p.m.
tapes, etc.
but that won't last, next viewing date is Thursday. Maybe
related I found a dozen or so Xylinx (sic) protoboards, size of a punch
Xilinx are, of course, well-known for FPGA chips.
card half of it open, 2 digit display, couple
buttons, some kind of serial
looking connection, runs off a 9v battery, big socket in the middle with a
square chip in it of the same name. Sorry to be doing this from memory, but
These sound like FPGA demonstration boards. The FPGA is the 'big chip'.
The connector is to link it to a PC (probably using a special 'download
cable' at TTL levels -- I doubt if it links to a serial port) to program
the chip. The displays and buttons got to I/O pins on the FPGA so you can
have user inputs and outputs to the logic circuit you program into the FPGA.
-tony