5 May
2001
5 May
'01
7:49 a.m.
Heinz mentioned the Spartan FPGAs and Allison added:
a nice Virtex or Spartan fpga will fit a whole
processor
Check again Allison. I've been playing around with a Spartan-II 200K gate
FPGA that is on a board built by Tony Burch <http://www.burched.com.au>
(and my experiences with it are here:
<http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/robotics/fpga>). The board and some support
stuff (SRAM, Serial/Kbd/mouse ports, etc) was less than $400 and the design
tools are *free*. You do have to take the time to learn VHDL but so far the
payoff has been worth it for me. I'm having a blast with this thing. My
"final" is a PDP-8 w/ Serial terminal (think DECMate in a single chip) with
full lights and switches. This chip can do that easily. I don't think it
can do a KL-10 but it might ...
--Chuck
with up to 1mbit or sram on chip.
Far more
interesting, out of my range of tools to do.
Allison