In the comments to Brian Bailey's recent blog Getting Inside Your FPGA Design, All Programmable Planet (APP) member -- and valued contributor to our live online weekly chats -- Garcia Lasheras offered an interesting suggestion.
Garcia's idea was that we -- the members of All Programmable Planet -- undoubtedly have a lot of different FPGA development boards between us. In some cases, of course, we have more than our fair share, as is evidenced by The Mighty Hamster's Desert Island FPGA Boards column. And that column was several months ago -- goodness knows how many boards The Mighty Hamster has now. We certainly know that he's added a ZedBoard to his collection since those far-off times.
Furthermore, Garcia suggested that if members knew which boards were owned by other members, then we would all know where to go if we had questions about a particular system, such as "What does this red-flashing LED mean?" or "How do I get the smoke back in?" (With regard to the "smoke" question, also see my blog on the Smoke Re-concentrator for refurbishing blown electronic components.)
The Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC-based ZedBoard.
Personally, I think this is a brilliant idea. Actually, let's not limit ourselves only to FPGA development and/or evaluation boards. Since a lot of APP members are also proficient with microcontrollers, I would suggest we also add MCU development and/or evaluation boards into the mix.
OK, over to you -- this is where you post your comments describing which boards you have. Later, if you have a question about a board, you can simply reply to that person's comment. Alternatively, if you email me at max.maxfield@ubm.com, then I will be happy to facilitate communication between you and the board's owner.
I have, although I have to admit I mainly use the PIC uC board - as it's the easiest to get up and running. FPGA's - a bit more for work than home - at least for me :-)
Re: Which FPGA/MCU Development Boards Are You Using?
Absolutely - I will share pictures and a short review with you this weekend. My LA came in last week anyway :-). That was a quick shipment from the vendor - Got a good deal on e-bay. Ran some quick checks to make sure it is up and running :-)
I'm forced to developing for QuadMo747-X/T20, but the official software from private area - is rootfs with Ubuntu 10.10 and kernel version 2.
I'm tryed to compile new kernel 3 for using Ubuntu 12.4 and tryed to apply drivers from NVidia site - but seems that Seco's kernel and drivers for QuadMo were seriously updated compare official kernel.
Seco support suggested to try kernel 3 for T30, but won't give access because I bought only T20.
As you have both T20 and T30 may be you have some ideas about my problems, and - can you share the software for T30?
Re: Which FPGA/MCU Development Boards Are You Using?
@Max
I just read first few paragraphs from your post just now after seeing your reply - that looks cool! But looks like they don't support Mac. The cost for that spec seems to be on the higher side though :-) The LA's I mentioned in my earlier post provide similar spec or may be a bit more features, they are usb based - Logic 16 supports Win, Linux and Mac and all this at much lesses price. Logic 16 gives about 100 $ discount for students and FREE for professors.
But certainly, this does look like a cool gadget for Apple fans!
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One alternative to parallel interconnect in the form of busses is to use a serial interconnect setup. This typically involves a special transceiver block inside the device.
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