Looking for a Design for a Small FPGA Board

Did you mean :  http://www.digilentinc.com/

maxfoo wrote:

> Have you looked at the development boards at www.digilent.com
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> Xilinx only, but the lowest priced ones I've seen anywhere on the web...
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"Tony Burch" <tony@burched.com.au> wrote in message news:<4149187b$0$23897$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
> Hi Darien,
> 
> Here is a new board that may meet your needs
> http://www.trenz-electronic.de/prod/proden19.htm
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> It's dimension is 50.7 x 43.6mm, however if you
> took off the USB connector, and then used a dremel
> tool, or a small mill, to route off the top egde and
> the left edge (no, I'm serious:) ), then I think you
> may be able to bring it down to your needed size.
> 
> You could then solder your wires to the bottom
> edge connector.
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> Best regards,
> 
> Tony Burch
> B  U  R  C  H  E  D
> Simple FPGA Boards, The Most Free I/O, Easy Prototyping
> http://www.burched.biz

Hm, sounds interesting, I might just try that...  thanks for the advice.

-Daragoth

--snip--
> Also, does anybody know about a source for generic usb dongle cases?
> Our quantities are not large enough to have a custom case molded.
> 
> Kolja Sulimma
> 
 --snip--

Pactec makes several cases that are appropriately sized.  I've seen
several comercial designs that use their CM line.

Rob Young
rwyoung@ieee.nospam.org

news@sulimma.de (Kolja Sulimma) wrote in message news:<b890a7a.0409161122.4470a33f@posting.google.com>...
> That's what I really love about this newsgroup, people recommeding
> products of their direct competitors.
> Kudos to you, Tony!
> 
> I designed the Trenz board. It is layouted in a way that you can cut
> it in stripes without interrupting the power supply. For a dongle
> product.
> At 42mm x 30mm x 3.5mm it will give you 60 FPGA I/O plus configuration
> and power supply, at 42mm x 20mm x 3.5mm you will have to solder every
> IO to the board yourself. Are you sure that you can not squeeze it in
> with these additional 2mm?
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> You can cut away these 2mm but it will interrupt the main power
> supply, you could fix that with a wire, but this will result in a
> really ugly looking board afterwards.
> 
> BTW: Can you tell us what it is that you want to build the board into?
> 
> Also, does anybody know about a source for generic usb dongle cases?
> Our quantities are not large enough to have a custom case molded.
> 
> Kolja Sulimma

This sounds like it really might work... the only concern I have is
the height of 20 mm.  I noticed there was a pushbutton on the board,
is it this that's causing the height.  If so, would it be possible to
remove it easily?  Thanks for your help.

-Darien

maxfoo <maxfoo@punkassSPAM.com> wrote in message news:<uhlal0l0dqdsess20ijlh2a4i4jh1h4346@4ax.com>...
> Have you looked at the development boards at www.digilent.com
> 
> Xilinx only, but the lowest priced ones I've seen anywhere on the web...

I believe I've looked at those before... the dimensions of the boards
there don't seem to be listed on the website, but from what I can tell
they appear to be too large, unfortunately.

-Darien