9 Dec
2008
9 Dec
'08
12:04 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 9 Dec 2008 at 9:32, Alexandre Souza wrote:
That's not what I said. The TI stick will get you a CPU and the USB
debugging/programming interface--basically an eval kit for $20. You
even get a few LEDs to play with as well as something like (I don't
remember exactly) 14 I/Os. There's a $50 version with a wireless
interface.
Show me a $20 FPGA eval kit (with programmer) and I'll buy it.
$20.00 is a bit hard to find, but I think it's an apples to oranges
comparison. I used to see $49 Xilinx eval boards, but the best I can
find this afternoon is $59.00
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavTop=2&NavSub=457&…
Still, that's a complete unit. I would call $20 a better price, but not
a "bargain". For $40.00 more, you get access to gate level design that
runs at many MHz. Besides, you can get into AVR for $5.00, so I'd
consider that a bargain over the TI stuff if we're going to call $20.00
a bargain over $60.00
I think being able to get into any of these technologies for < $100.00
is a bargain. In college, it cost $430.00 to get the HC11EVM, and the
EVB was $99.00, which is > $100 in today's money.
Jim
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 :)