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sidir
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
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 23 Dec 2004 10:22 Need advices on FPGA board for professional development |
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| Our lab plans to buy a FPGA board for professional development. We have some experiences on Nios board already. And we feel that it is somewhat small, suitable for starters. So we want to buy a board with larger FPGA chips and more supports for high performance embedded computing and signal processing. Which board should we buy? How about @ltera stratix vs Xilink spartan? Thanks!
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videohu
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| 23 Dec 2004 16:31 Need advices on FPGA board for professional development |
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| It depends on your requirements, I think it is better to list your requriements and ask the technique support from Xilinx and @ltera. They will give some some details about their solutions.
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bittware
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| 26 Dec 2004 13:33 Re: Need advices on FPGA board for professional development |
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| Provided you had owned a nios board, you must obtain the qu(at)rtus II license and be familiar with its working style. So why invest extra money and learning energy on Xilinx board with ISE? I recommend you to buy Stratix based board.
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sidir
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
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| 29 Dec 2004 19:29 Need advices on FPGA board for professional development |
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| bittware, you are right. Your advice remind me of the troublesome procedure to get workable licenses from the distributor. Thank you!
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maruvatan
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| 04 Jan 2005 5:38 Re: Need advices on FPGA board for professional development |
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Hi, I think the question was more of device functionality rather than the s/w involved.
I have used both qu(at)rtus 2 and Xilinx ISE. I find them both user friendly, easy to learn and click-and-go type (though I would not recommend doing just that!). Its equally important to know what you are implementation is and to get familar with the system functionality, logic/memory requirements. Assign proper clocks, and follow banking rules.
I would recomment choosing board with FPGA which has PowerPC, in-built transceivers, RocketIO. I have seen a Xilinx FAE demo a development board with flash mem, USB interface, RS232 , GbE ethernet, DDR interface and have it running in just 5 mins.
have a look at their offerings http://legacy.memec.com/devkits/americas.shtml
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lockerman
Joined: 08 Oct 2001
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| 01 Feb 2005 16:12 Re: Need advices on FPGA board for professional development |
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Try to look at
www.celoxica.com
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shakalaka
Joined: 19 Jul 2003
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| 07 Feb 2005 4:45 Re: Need advices on FPGA board for professional development |
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| Go for Virtex-II family....
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omid219
Joined: 02 Feb 2005
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| 15 Feb 2005 10:06 Need advices on FPGA board for professional development |
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| Go for Virtex II family and if you want to have a developement board to implement hi-density design with embeded processor, I suggest to use ARM developement board.
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