Polmaddie1 - For Traffic Lights Junkies

As promised another new product Polmaddie1 http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/cpld=
_boards/polmaddie1.html.
It's a very simple CPLD board based on Coolrunner-II. It's aimed at
doing student or hobby learning with 4 sets of traffic lights to drive
and you can even get your PC involved via the serial port providing
FTDI FT232RQ chip that's on board. You can write custom software to
drive this serial port or simply send charactors from a terminal
emulator like Hyperterminal to drive sequences.

We also made this project integration friendly with the main headers
on a 0.1inch or 2.54mm grid so strip-board is a possible carrier of
add-on electronics. The main headers will support up to 60 I/O between
them and 3.3V and GND are there to support things hanging off on
ribbon cables etc..

Pricing isn't 100% finalised but for lab quantities it will be around
GBP=A320 - US$34, 26=80 on current exchange rates.

As always let me know what you guys think of the product and what else
you might like in this new product range.

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd. - Providing VHDL and Verilog Training Platforms.

On Oct 30, 11:33=A0am, John Adair <g...@enterpoint.co.uk> wrote:
> As promised another new product Polmaddie1http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/cpl=
d_boards/polmaddie1.html.
> It's a very simple CPLD board based on Coolrunner-II. It's aimed at
> doing student or hobby learning with 4 sets of traffic lights to drive
> and you can even get your PC involved via the serial port providing
> FTDI FT232RQ chip that's on board. You can write custom software to
> drive this serial port or simply send charactors from a terminal
> emulator like Hyperterminal to drive sequences.
>
> We also made this project integration friendly with the main headers
> on a 0.1inch or 2.54mm grid so strip-board is a possible carrier of
> add-on electronics. The main headers will support up to 60 I/O between
> them and 3.3V and GND are there to support things hanging off on
> ribbon cables etc..
>
> Pricing isn't 100% finalised but for lab quantities it will be around
> GBP=A320 - US$34, 26=80 on current exchange rates.
>
> As always let me know what you guys think of the product and what else
> you might like in this new product range.
>
> John Adair
> Enterpoint Ltd. - Providing VHDL and Verilog Training Platforms.

Very cute :)

Just need to remote the traffic lights for the model RR junkies.

14.318 MHz sounds like a video frequency, not optimum for the
UART baud rate, but high enough to get within 1% for the common
rates.  Was this frequency chosen based on price?

Regards,
Gabor

The oscillator in the photo is in a socket so can be changed to
whatever anyone wants to have. We already carry a wide range of these
oscillators so supplying options isn't a problem. It's not fully
decided if we will ship oscillators with the board as the FTDI chip
can also output 6/12/24/48 MHz when reprogrammed from it's default
state and we have wired that in. Once we have confirmed this
functionality we will decide if to ship an oscillator or to leave as a
clear socket.

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd.

On 30 Oct, 19:27, Gabor <ga...@alacron.com> wrote:
> On Oct 30, 11:33=A0am, John Adair <g...@enterpoint.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > As promised another new product Polmaddie1http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/c=
pld_boards/polmaddie1.html.
> > It's a very simple CPLD board based on Coolrunner-II. It's aimed at
> > doing student or hobby learning with 4 sets of traffic lights to drive
> > and you can even get your PC involved via the serial port providing
> > FTDI FT232RQ chip that's on board. You can write custom software to
> > drive this serial port or simply send charactors from a terminal
> > emulator like Hyperterminal to drive sequences.
>
> > We also made this project integration friendly with the main headers
> > on a 0.1inch or 2.54mm grid so strip-board is a possible carrier of
> > add-on electronics. The main headers will support up to 60 I/O between
> > them and 3.3V and GND are there to support things hanging off on
> > ribbon cables etc..
>
> > Pricing isn't 100% finalised but for lab quantities it will be around
> > GBP=A320 - US$34, 26=80 on current exchange rates.
>
> > As always let me know what you guys think of the product and what else
> > you might like in this new product range.
>
> > John Adair
> > Enterpoint Ltd. - Providing VHDL and Verilog Training Platforms.
>
> Very cute :)
>
> Just need to remote the traffic lights for the model RR junkies.
>
> 14.318 MHz sounds like a video frequency, not optimum for the
> UART baud rate, but high enough to get within 1% for the common
> rates. =A0Was this frequency chosen based on price?
>
> Regards,
> Gabor- Hide quoted text -
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