22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
6:36 a.m.
On 11/22/06, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Go to http://www.digilentinc.com/ and look for
"Spartan 3 Starter
Board" under Products. It's $99. That's the one that I have, and
it's wonderful. Lots of I/O (set up for VGA, PS/2 kbd/mouse, async
serial), LED displays and individual LEDs, switches, RAM...and there
are lots of "accessory boards" that plug into this board, like analog
I/O, solderless breadboard with FPGA pin breakouts, etc etc. It
really is good stuff.
That looks really cool... shame the memory is 32-bits... my first
reaction was that this might make a nice platform for a PDP-10
emulator... use one of the I/O ports for a disk, maybe another one for
network and/or serial ports... I suppose one could throw a couple of
mobys of RAM on the remaining port. This is all contingent of being
able to wedge hunks of a 36-bit CPU in a couple of hundred thousand
gates. I wouldn't even know where to begin to estimate.
-ethan