Does anybody know of a good, --small--, development board with an ethernet port? What I'm really looking for is essentially a FPGA, on a very small PCB, with an ethernet port and power port/headers. Some extra pins brought out to headers would be handy, but are not essential. While I'm dreaming, it needs to be something I could communicate to from linux, so proprietary / windows-only ethernet drivers won't cut it. Xilinx is preferred, but I'm open to other platforms if a better solution exists. Cheap is good... how cheap depends on the size of the FPGA that I can get. Thanks for your suggestions... - chris
Small FPGA Dev Board with Ethernet
Started by ●February 23, 2007
Reply by ●February 23, 20072007-02-23
Ah! There it is. The Mini-module from Avnet. Spartan-3 3S400 and Virtex-4 FX12 flavors. Go to www.em.avnet.com, Products tab, Design Resource Center (right below the Products tab), look for Mini-module. "Designed as a complete system on a module, the Mini packages all the necessary functions needed for an embedded processor system, onto a tiny footprint slightly bigger than a stick of chewing gum." - John_H "Chris Murphy" <chrismurf@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1172251224.719699.314850@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...> Does anybody know of a good, --small--, development board with an > ethernet port? What I'm really looking for is essentially a FPGA, on > a very small PCB, with an ethernet port and power port/headers. Some > extra pins brought out to headers would be handy, but are not > essential. While I'm dreaming, it needs to be something I could > communicate to from linux, so proprietary / windows-only ethernet > drivers won't cut it. > > Xilinx is preferred, but I'm open to other platforms if a better > solution exists. Cheap is good... how cheap depends on the size of > the FPGA that I can get. > > Thanks for your suggestions... > > - chris
Reply by ●February 24, 20072007-02-24
Hi Chris,> Does anybody know of a good, --small--, development board with an > ethernet port? What I'm really looking for is essentially a FPGA, on > a very small PCB, with an ethernet port and power port/headers. Some > extra pins brought out to headers would be handy, but are not > essential. While I'm dreaming, it needs to be something I could > communicate to from linux, so proprietary / windows-only ethernet > drivers won't cut it.Take a look here. Boards are preconfigured with uCLinux, and have standard 2.54mm headers. http://shop.trenz-electronic.de/catalog/default.php?cPath=1_51 best regards Thorsten Trenz
