A new product from Digiliant...
All i can say is oooo!
* Virtex-2 Pro XC2VP30 FPGA with 30,816 Logic Cells, 136 18-bit
multipliers, 2,448Kb of block RAM, and two PowerPC Processors
* DDR SDRAM DIMM that can accept up to 2Gbytes of RAM
* 10/100 Ethernet port
* USB2 port
* Compact Flash card slot
* XSGA Video port
* Audio Codec
* SATA, and PS/2, RS-232 ports
* High and Low Speed expansion connectors with a large collection
of available expansion boards
http://www.digilentinc.com/info/XUPV2P.cfm
300$ student price.... Now if i can convince them to give that price out
to us lowly hobbiests too...
New FPGA Development Board
Started by ●April 24, 2005
Reply by ●April 24, 20052005-04-24
Reply by ●April 24, 20052005-04-24
Ziggy wrote:> A new product from Digiliant... > > All i can say is oooo! > > > > * Virtex-2 Pro XC2VP30 FPGA with 30,816 Logic Cells, 136 18-bit > multipliers, 2,448Kb of block RAM, and two PowerPC Processors > * DDR SDRAM DIMM that can accept up to 2Gbytes of RAM > * 10/100 Ethernet port > * USB2 port > * Compact Flash card slot > * XSGA Video port > * Audio Codec > * SATA, and PS/2, RS-232 ports > * High and Low Speed expansion connectors with a large collection of > available expansion boards > > > http://www.digilentinc.com/info/XUPV2P.cfm > > 300$ student price.... Now if i can convince them to give that price out > to us lowly hobbiests too...Good luck :-) A quick glance at the NuHorizons website shows they're selling just the FPGA for $619 (Quantity 1 price), or $487 (quantity 100+ price). If you do manage it, let me know! At *last* a development board with a DIMM socket on it. Oh frabjous day. Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy :-)) Why it's such a rare item is beyond me - it takes 123 signals to put a generic 184-pin DIMM socket on-board... With the BGA parts having upwards of 300 (566 in this case) signals available, and RAM being so ridiculously cheap (in DIMMs!), and with the EDK becoming more popular you'd have thought a DIMM socket would be commonplace... Horses for courses I suppose :-( ATB, Simon.
Reply by ●April 24, 20052005-04-24
*snip*> > Why it's such a rare item is beyond me - it takes 123 signals to put a > generic 184-pin DIMM socket on-board... With the BGA parts having > upwards of 300 (566 in this case) signals available, and RAM being so > ridiculously cheap (in DIMMs!), and with the EDK becoming more popular > you'd have thought a DIMM socket would be commonplace... Horses for > courses I suppose :-( > > ATB, > Simon.While not a full size DIMM, http://www.cmosexod.com/fnd.htm supports a laptop sized DIMM..
Reply by ●April 25, 20052005-04-25
Ziggy, For this board, can buyer specify a Spartan 3 1000K FPGA? On this page, it mentioned the board can accomodate three types of FPGA, http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Programmable.cfm but on the actual page, this information is missing. http://www.digilentinc.com/info/S3Board.cfm Thank you for your attention. "Ziggy" <Ziggy@TheCentre.com> wrote in message news:ReUae.17355$NU4.6274@attbi_s22...> A new product from Digiliant... > > All i can say is oooo! > > > > * Virtex-2 Pro XC2VP30 FPGA with 30,816 Logic Cells, 136 18-bit > multipliers, 2,448Kb of block RAM, and two PowerPC Processors > * DDR SDRAM DIMM that can accept up to 2Gbytes of RAM > * 10/100 Ethernet port > * USB2 port > * Compact Flash card slot > * XSGA Video port > * Audio Codec > * SATA, and PS/2, RS-232 ports > * High and Low Speed expansion connectors with a large collection > of available expansion boards > > > http://www.digilentinc.com/info/XUPV2P.cfm > > 300$ student price.... Now if i can convince them to give that price out > to us lowly hobbiests too...
Reply by ●April 25, 20052005-04-25
Unfortunately, you can't use webpack with this board, so you have to buy an ISE license, right? (I am a student also, but having to get an ISE license is kind of a damper). -Arlen
Reply by ●April 25, 20052005-04-25
Simon wrote:> If you do manage it, let me know! At *last* a development board with a > DIMM socket on it. Oh frabjous day. Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his > joy :-)) > > Why it's such a rare item is beyond me - it takes 123 signals to put a > generic 184-pin DIMM socket on-board... With the BGA parts having > upwards of 300 (566 in this case) signals available, and RAM being so > ridiculously cheap (in DIMMs!), and with the EDK becoming more popular > you'd have thought a DIMM socket would be commonplace... Horses for > courses I suppose :-(There are other Virtex-II Pro boards that have been available for sometime with a DDR-DIMM on it, including the ML310 from Xilinx which uses the same FPGA (XC2VP30) and has appeared in a number of posts here in comp.arch.fpga http://www.xilinx.com/ml310 Ed
Reply by ●April 25, 20052005-04-25
Acceed See wrote:> Ziggy, > > For this board, can buyer specify a Spartan 3 1000K FPGA? > On this page, it mentioned the board can accomodate three types of FPGA, > http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Programmable.cfm > but on the actual page, this information is missing. > http://www.digilentinc.com/info/S3Board.cfm > > Thank you for your attention. > > >Donno, but im sure they would respond to an email. Personaly i was interested in the Virtex-2, as its got 2 real PPC cores. Could have lots of fun with that * drool *.. The S3 board does have a 1M option now, you see it in the shopping cart. And in reality that is what im going to be getting, unless i can find a way to be declared a student.. Its like only 120 or so with the 1M upgrade, much more affordable to a simple hobbiest like myself.
Reply by ●April 25, 20052005-04-25
"Ziggy" <Ziggy@TheCentre.com> wrote in message news:_c8be.14332$c24.10134@attbi_s72...> Acceed See wrote: >> Ziggy, >> >> For this board, can buyer specify a Spartan 3 1000K FPGA? >> On this page, it mentioned the board can accomodate three types of FPGA, >> http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Programmable.cfm >> but on the actual page, this information is missing. >> http://www.digilentinc.com/info/S3Board.cfm >> >> Thank you for your attention. >> >> >> > > Donno, but im sure they would respond to an email. > > Personaly i was interested in the Virtex-2, as its got 2 real PPC cores. > Could have lots of fun with that * drool *.. > > The S3 board does have a 1M option now, you see it in the shopping cart. > And in reality that is what im going to be getting, unless i can find a > way to be declared a student.. Its like only 120 or so with the 1M > upgrade, much more affordable to a simple hobbiest like myself.Says quarter 3 2005 Spartan3e starter kit http://www.xilinx.com/products/spartan3e/s3eboards.htm for US$149 ethernet , usb , 32MB sdram, XC3S500E-4FG320 maybe with an upgrade option ? Alex
Reply by ●April 25, 20052005-04-25
Alex Gibson wrote:> "Ziggy" <Ziggy@TheCentre.com> wrote in message > news:_c8be.14332$c24.10134@attbi_s72... > >>Acceed See wrote: >> >>>Ziggy, >>> >>>For this board, can buyer specify a Spartan 3 1000K FPGA? >>>On this page, it mentioned the board can accomodate three types of FPGA, >>>http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Programmable.cfm >>>but on the actual page, this information is missing. >>>http://www.digilentinc.com/info/S3Board.cfm >>> >>>Thank you for your attention. >>> >>> >>> >> >>Donno, but im sure they would respond to an email. >> >>Personaly i was interested in the Virtex-2, as its got 2 real PPC cores. >>Could have lots of fun with that * drool *.. >> >>The S3 board does have a 1M option now, you see it in the shopping cart. >>And in reality that is what im going to be getting, unless i can find a >>way to be declared a student.. Its like only 120 or so with the 1M >>upgrade, much more affordable to a simple hobbiest like myself. > > > Says quarter 3 2005 > > Spartan3e starter kit > http://www.xilinx.com/products/spartan3e/s3eboards.htm for US$149 > ethernet , usb , 32MB sdram, XC3S500E-4FG320 > maybe with an upgrade option ? > > Alex > > >All i know is if you order the S3 board direct from digiliant, when you check out you get the option today to upgrade the chip... Guess ill find out in a week or two if its really there when i order mine. If its not real, then ill wait..
