Hi Guys, I am currently looking for a small board with FPGA and USB/Ethernet module on it. Some time ago we used to use OpalKelly 3010 boards, and they were just fine, and now they are on of the main candidates. But since some time has passed, I thought maybe there are some others interesting products that would satisfy my basic requirements: 1. Plenty of free user I/Os. 2. Fast communication interface (USB1 wouldn't do) 3. Relatively small form factor 4. Developed firmware, so that not much hacking would need to be involved. I would be very grateful if somebody could share his experience (known bugs, etc) with the following boards (or if you used different ones and can compare - even better!!) 1. OpalKelly 2. TQM HS3/HV5 from tq-components http://tq-components.de/produktdatenbank+M5d637b1e38d.html interesting boards, but haven't heard anything from people using them 3. TE0300 modules from Trenz-electronic http://www.trenz-electronic.de/products/fpga-boards/trenz-electronic/industrial-modules.html same story as in 2. 4. SUZAKU series from www.atmark-techno.com/ There are some others such as Easyfpga and FTDI Fpga boards, but they offer slow data-rate and very limited in terms of user I/O pins. Although all listed here products are based on XIlinx chips, this certainly doesn't have to be case. Alex
Small FPGA boards with USB/Ethernet
Started by ●October 24, 2008
Reply by ●October 24, 20082008-10-24
It's possible that a development board we have scheduled for release later in this quarter will meet your requirements. It's not the one I will probably announce next week, or even the release after that, so don't think they are the ones to look at. We also do have the possiblity of doing a small solution based on our Drigmorn1 board, http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/component_replacements/drigmor= n1.html, and an add-on module. For add-on modules we have an ethernet phy module and also a usb2 module based on CY7C68014. The later isn't as fast as it could be but I hope we will improve that shorly. John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. - Making FPGA Technology Work. On 24 Oct, 17:31, Alex <al.lop...@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi Guys, > > I am currently looking for a small board with FPGA and USB/Ethernet > module on it. Some time ago we used to use OpalKelly 3010 boards, and > they were just fine, and now they are on of the main candidates. But > since some time has passed, I thought maybe there are some others > interesting products that would satisfy my basic requirements: > 1. Plenty of free user I/Os. > 2. Fast communication interface (USB1 wouldn't do) > 3. Relatively small form factor > 4. Developed firmware, so that not much hacking would need to be > involved. > > I would be very grateful if somebody could share his experience (known > bugs, etc) with > =A0 the following boards (or if you used different ones and can > compare - even better!!) > 1. OpalKelly > 2. TQM HS3/HV5 =A0from tq-components =A0http://tq-components.de/produktda=tenbank+M5d637b1e38d.html> =A0 =A0 interesting boards, but haven't heard anything from people using > =A0 =A0 them > 3. TE0300 modules from =A0Trenz-electronic =A0 =A0http://www.trenz-electr=onic.de/products/fpga-boards/trenz-electronic/...> =A0 =A0 same story as in 2. > 4. SUZAKU series fromwww.atmark-techno.com/ > > There are some others such as Easyfpga and FTDI Fpga boards, but they > offer slow data-rate and very limited in terms of user I/O pins. > > Although all listed here products are based on XIlinx chips, this > certainly doesn't have to be case. > > Alex
Reply by ●October 27, 20082008-10-27
Hi John, Yes, I was looking at enterpoint products as well, but currently couldn't find the one that would satisfy my requirements. Perhaps, Darnaw1 looks good, but will involve designing the communication interface. Alex Darnaw1> It's possible that a development board we have scheduled for release > later in this quarter will meet your requirements. It's not the one I > will probably announce next week, or even the release after that, so > don't think they are the ones to look at. > > We also do have the possiblity of doing a small solution based on our > Drigmorn1 board, > http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/component_replacements/drigmorn1.html, > and an add-on module. For add-on modules we have an ethernet phy > module and also a usb2 module based on CY7C68014. The later isn't as > fast as it could be but I hope we will improve that shorly. > > John Adair > Enterpoint Ltd. - Making FPGA Technology Work. > > On 24 Oct, 17:31, Alex <al.lop...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I am currently looking for a small board with FPGA and USB/Ethernet >> module on it. Some time ago we used to use OpalKelly 3010 boards, and >> they were just fine, and now they are on of the main candidates. But >> since some time has passed, I thought maybe there are some others >> interesting products that would satisfy my basic requirements: >> 1. Plenty of free user I/Os. >> 2. Fast communication interface (USB1 wouldn't do) >> 3. Relatively small form factor >> 4. Developed firmware, so that not much hacking would need to be >> involved. >> >> I would be very grateful if somebody could share his experience (known >> bugs, etc) with >> � the following boards (or if you used different ones and can >> compare - even better!!) >> 1. OpalKelly >> 2. TQM HS3/HV5 �from tq-components >> �http://tq-components.de/produktdatenbank+M5d637b1e38d.html >> � � interesting boards, but haven't heard anything from people using >> � � them >> 3. TE0300 modules from �Trenz-electronic � >> �http://www.trenz-electronic.de/products/fpga-boards/trenz-electronic/... >> � � same story as in 2. >> 4. SUZAKU series fromwww.atmark-techno.com/ >> >> There are some others such as Easyfpga and FTDI Fpga boards, but they >> offer slow data-rate and very limited in terms of user I/O pins. >> >> Although all listed here products are based on XIlinx chips, this >> certainly doesn't have to be case. >> >> Alex >-- Alex
Reply by ●October 27, 20082008-10-27
Also, see www.fpgaz.com/usbp. Basic FPGA board with same cypress USB chip. Can be purchased from http://www.dehalastech.com/fpgaboard.html.