We finally made an assembly slot and built the 4 remaining Polmaddie CPLD and FPGA boards. These very low cost CPLD and FPGA boards will sell to universities and colleges in prices as low as $30-40. One off pricing starts at $60-70. The concept is a bit different to that offered by most development board vendors and we have 5 solutions, from 4 different CPLD/FPGA vendors, allowing you to evaluate differnt tool flows or even different technologies with a common feature set. More details http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/polmaddie/polmaddie_family.html. Polmaddie1 is shipping already. Polmaddie 3 should start shipping next week. Polmaddie2 should be shipping next. We are doing a low cost USB programmer for this board and that is a 2-3 weeks away. Polmaddie4 and Polmaddie5 will be a little longer as we need to do some work on low cost programming solutions for them. John Adair Enterpoint Ltd.
Polmaddie Family CPLD and FPGA Teaching Boards
Started by ●April 21, 2010
Reply by ●April 21, 20102010-04-21
On Apr 21, 10:59=A0am, John Adair <g...@enterpoint.co.uk> wrote:> We finally made an assembly slot and built the 4 remaining Polmaddie > CPLD and FPGA boards. These very low cost CPLD and FPGA boards will > sell to universities and colleges in prices as low as $30-40. One off > pricing starts at $60-70. > > The concept is a bit different to that offered by most development > board vendors and we have 5 solutions, from 4 different CPLD/FPGA > vendors, allowing you to evaluate differnt tool flows or even > different technologies with a common feature set. > > More detailshttp://www.enterpoint.co.uk/polmaddie/polmaddie_family.html. > > Polmaddie1 is shipping already. Polmaddie 3 should start shipping next > week. Polmaddie2 should be shipping next. We are doing a low cost USB > programmer for this board and that is a 2-3 weeks away. Polmaddie4 and > Polmaddie5 will be a little longer as we need to do some work on low > cost programming solutions for them. > > John Adair > Enterpoint Ltd.I didn't see which Spartan-3 is on the Polmaddie 3. Thanks, Pat
Reply by ●April 21, 20102010-04-21
It is a XC3S50AN on the Polmaddie3 so it's quite a useful board even beyond the target of the educational market. It's my personal favourite of the 5 boards but they all have different things to show. It is worth saying all of these boards can be powered from the USB port and the jack on board is just for convenience. John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. On 21 Apr, 19:44, Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> wrote:> On Apr 21, 10:59=A0am, John Adair <g...@enterpoint.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > We finally made an assembly slot and built the 4 remaining Polmaddie > > CPLD and FPGA boards. These very low cost CPLD and FPGA boards will > > sell to universities and colleges in prices as low as $30-40. One off > > pricing starts at $60-70. > > > The concept is a bit different to that offered by most development > > board vendors and we have 5 solutions, from 4 different CPLD/FPGA > > vendors, allowing you to evaluate differnt tool flows or even > > different technologies with a common feature set. > > > More detailshttp://www.enterpoint.co.uk/polmaddie/polmaddie_family.html=.> > > Polmaddie1 is shipping already. Polmaddie 3 should start shipping next > > week. Polmaddie2 should be shipping next. We are doing a low cost USB > > programmer for this board and that is a 2-3 weeks away. Polmaddie4 and > > Polmaddie5 will be a little longer as we need to do some work on low > > cost programming solutions for them. > > > John Adair > > Enterpoint Ltd. > > I didn't see which Spartan-3 is on the Polmaddie 3. > > Thanks, > Pat
Reply by ●April 22, 20102010-04-22
On Apr 22, 3:59=A0am, John Adair <g...@enterpoint.co.uk> wrote:> We finally made an assembly slot and built the 4 remaining Polmaddie > CPLD and FPGA boards. These very low cost CPLD and FPGA boards will > sell to universities and colleges in prices as low as $30-40. One off > pricing starts at $60-70. > > The concept is a bit different to that offered by most development > board vendors and we have 5 solutions, from 4 different CPLD/FPGA > vendors, allowing you to evaluate differnt tool flows or even > different technologies with a common feature set. > > More detailshttp://www.enterpoint.co.uk/polmaddie/polmaddie_family.html. >"ActelTM ProASIC3TM (Polmaddie5)." and the link says Polmaddie5 : " Software ISETM WebpackTM software is a free development tool suite from XilinxTM for CPLD + FPGA design development. More details http://www.xilinx.com/products/design_resources/design_tool/index.htm." oops... ;) and missing is any mention of which ProASIC3 is fitted - rather an important detail ? -jg
Reply by ●April 22, 20102010-04-22
On Apr 22, 3:59=A0am, John Adair <g...@enterpoint.co.uk> wrote:> We finally made an assembly slot and built the 4 remaining Polmaddie > CPLD and FPGA boards. These very low cost CPLD and FPGA boards will > sell to universities and colleges in prices as low as $30-40. One off > pricing starts at $60-70. > > The concept is a bit different to that offered by most development > board vendors and we have 5 solutions, from 4 different CPLD/FPGA > vendors, allowing you to evaluate differnt tool flows or even > different technologies with a common feature set.A very good idea. Since you do an EPM3128A and XC2C128, it's surprising to not see the Atmel ATF1508RE ? ATF1508RE has more logic than a XC2C128, and lower power than a EPM3128A. -jg
Reply by ●April 22, 20102010-04-22
The Polmaddie4/5 webpages will be improved. Obviously the software aspect will be different. We didn't do an Atmel part because mainly because they are almost non- existant in the educational marketplace. There are a number of other vendors as well that we didn't do on that basis. Ultimately the first 5 boards are a market test and if there are other things that prove popular requests then maybe we might do them. There were also other design critera that knocked many parts out including (1) TQ144 package to reuse tooling we did for Polmaddie1 (2) A free software tools critera. I do know the Actel Igloo and SiliconBlue parts got thrown out on the basis of (1) much as they would be nice parts to try. . All of these factors were important in delivering what is a very low cost set of boards. John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. On 22 Apr, 09:33, -jg <jim.granvi...@gmail.com> wrote:> On Apr 22, 3:59=A0am, John Adair <g...@enterpoint.co.uk> wrote: > > > We finally made an assembly slot and built the 4 remaining Polmaddie > > CPLD and FPGA boards. These very low cost CPLD and FPGA boards will > > sell to universities and colleges in prices as low as $30-40. One off > > pricing starts at $60-70. > > > The concept is a bit different to that offered by most development > > board vendors and we have 5 solutions, from 4 different CPLD/FPGA > > vendors, allowing you to evaluate differnt tool flows or even > > different technologies with a common feature set. > > A very good idea. > > =A0Since you do an EPM3128A and XC2C128, it's surprising to not see the > Atmel ATF1508RE ? > =A0ATF1508RE has more logic than a XC2C128, and lower power than a > EPM3128A. > > -jg
