Development board with SD card.

I'm looking for an FPGA (any flavor) development board
with an SD card socket connected to the FPGA.

It must have all the pins connected (not just SPI mode).

So FAR I've found the Arrow LPRP.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Pete 

I don't have one, but i was thinking of buying a protoboard and trying
to
figure out how to get and SD card interface to work with my spartan3e
kit.
I know someone that's been playing around with SD cards, so if he'd be
kind
enough to give me info, i'll be sure to pass it onto you.

good luck

On Aug 8, 4:09=A0pm, "Pete Fraser" <pfra...@covad.net> wrote:
> I'm looking for an FPGA (any flavor) development board
> with an SD card socket connected to the FPGA.
>
> It must have all the pins connected (not just SPI mode).
>
> So FAR I've found the Arrow LPRP.
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pete

sorry didn't read that, i might not be much help :)

> So FAR I've found the Arrow LPRP.
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pete

On Aug 8, 3:09=A0pm, "Pete Fraser" <pfra...@covad.net> wrote:
> I'm looking for an FPGA (any flavor) development board
> with an SD card socket connected to the FPGA.
>
> It must have all the pins connected (not just SPI mode).
>
> So FAR I've found the Arrow LPRP.
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pete


A project that Antti did is almost what you want: http://www.microdream-1.c=
om/Pmod-B.html

It has SD connected, but only in one bit mode.

When we developed out cards we put a miniSD card slot on the back of
them:

http://www.fastertechnology.com/extras/pics/p6a/p6a_back_tn.jpg

For our development, we just soldered a miniSD to SD converter to a
ribbon cable that was crimped to a DIN connector. Then we plugged that
into an Avnet development board.  We put a few caps on the power pins,
and series terminated at the miniSD converter. That worked like a
charm, and it was quick and easy as long as you have the stuff to
solder with. The miniSD to SD converter came with the miniSD card.

We use the miniSD to configure the V4FX, then it boots its software
from it. We use it in both SD and SPI modes.

Regards,

John McCaskill
www.FasterTechnology.com

You could use a board that has a 2x6 or two 1x6 Digilent PMOD
connections and then use the Digilent SD PMOD
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=PMOD-SD&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Peripheral.

Some candidates include:
 - Avnet Spartan-3A 400A Eval board (www.em.avnet.com/spartan3a-evl)
 - Xilinx Spartan-3A DSP 1800A Starter (www.xilinx.com/s3adspstarter)
 - Xilinx Spartan-3A 700A Starter (www.xilinx.com/s3astarter)

Bryan

"Bryan" <bryan.fletcher@avnet.com> wrote in message 
news:a81b6767-e27e-434a-b273-1b49747b7dd8@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> You could use a board that has a 2x6 or two 1x6 Digilent PMOD
> connections and then use the Digilent SD PMOD
> http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=PMOD-SD&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Peripheral.
>
> Some candidates include:

> - Xilinx Spartan-3A DSP 1800A Starter (www.xilinx.com/s3adspstarter)

I happened to have one of these lying around, and I just
ordered the SDPMOD and cable.

Looks like it's exactly what I'm looking for.

Thanks.

Anybody know of any open source SD mode controller?
The only open core project I can find is SPI.

Thanks

Pete 

On 8 aug, 23:59, John McCaskill <jhmccask...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 3:09=A0pm, "Pete Fraser" <pfra...@covad.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for an FPGA (any flavor) development board
> > with an SD card socket connected to the FPGA.
>
> > It must have all the pins connected (not just SPI mode).
>
> > So FAR I've found the Arrow LPRP.
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Pete
>
> A project that Antti did is almost what you want:http://www.microdream-1.=
com/Pmod-B.html
>
> It has SD connected, but only in one bit mode.
>
> When we developed out cards we put a miniSD card slot on the back of
> them:
>
> http://www.fastertechnology.com/extras/pics/p6a/p6a_back_tn.jpg
>
> For our development, we just soldered a miniSD to SD converter to a
> ribbon cable that was crimped to a DIN connector. Then we plugged that
> into an Avnet development board. =A0We put a few caps on the power pins,
> and series terminated at the miniSD converter. That worked like a
> charm, and it was quick and easy as long as you have the stuff to
> solder with. The miniSD to SD converter came with the miniSD card.
>
> We use the miniSD to configure the V4FX, then it boots its software
> from it. We use it in both SD and SPI modes.
>
> Regards,
>
> John McCaskillwww.FasterTechnology.com

Hi John,

I am glad that it has not been left un-noticed, as per distribution
agreement the product is now also available from german development
board distributor
http://shop.trenz-electronic.de/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=3D66&product=
s_id=3D348

I believe all Xilinx development boards with the 6 pin connector sold
by Trenz are bundled with the micro-SD board without extra surchage to
the price.

This reminds me that I have not published yet all my supporting
libraries and _IP_cores_ and reference designs that I have developed
for SD and microblaze. I still intend todo that, just my days still
have only 25 hours ;)

Besides that I am developing more FPGA products and accessories,
hopefully rolling our first products in september already

Antti

PS there are some SD mode ip cores out in the wild.. not very rigid
though

Pete

We have a a SDCARD module to go with our Raggedstone1, Broaddown2/4
and Mulldonoch products. It supports all the pins and has a mosfet
power switch to allow crude resets. I don't believe it''s listed on
our shop or general websites yet but it is in stock and available. We
have some updates for the website ongoing and I think these will
appear early September with all the new products etc..

Links for the above boards:

http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/moelbryn/raggedstone1.html

http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/moelbryn/broaddown2.html

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd.


On Aug 8, 9:09=A0pm, "Pete Fraser" <pfra...@covad.net> wrote:
> I'm looking for an FPGA (any flavor) development board
> with an SD card socket connected to the FPGA.
>
> It must have all the pins connected (not just SPI mode).
>
> So FAR I've found the Arrow LPRP.
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pete

On Aug 8, 4:09 pm, "Pete Fraser" <pfra...@covad.net> wrote:
> I'm looking for an FPGA (any flavor) development board
> with an SD card socket connected to the FPGA.
>
> It must have all the pins connected (not just SPI mode).

In a pinch you can solder wires directly to the SD card to get a
prototype working, though of course then you can't remove it to
preload data with a PC.  Er, well, you can and use solder braid to
clean the contacts ;-)

On 15 aug, 18:00, cs_post...@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 8, 4:09 pm, "Pete Fraser" <pfra...@covad.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for an FPGA (any flavor) development board
> > with an SD card socket connected to the FPGA.
>
> > It must have all the pins connected (not just SPI mode).
>
> In a pinch you can solder wires directly to the SD card to get a
> prototype working, though of course then you can't remove it to
> preload data with a PC. =A0Er, well, you can and use solder braid to
> clean the contacts ;-)

the nice trick is to use SD to miniSD adapter
so you solder to the adapter pads and you can remove the miniSD (or
microSD)

Antti