FS: Xilinx FPGA board

[Martin K]

I'm selling a Xilinx Spartan 3 - based FPGA development board that was
made by Digilent Inc.:
<http://digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,797&Prod=NEXYS>

The version I have has a Spartan 3 - 1000k 'gate' device. This is over
twice the size of the -400 device that the standard Nexys board has.

The board has a lot of simple i/o (LEDs, switches, pushbuttons) as
well as a 100 pin high-speed connector.
It has onboard SDRAM (self-refresh even) and flash (platform and user)

If you've been interested in getting started with FPGAs maybe this
would be good for you. I'm asking $80 - remember it has a much larger
FPGA than the standard board at Digilent. (I paid over $150 for it)

I'm in Brookline but we can meet somewhere if you want. I also drive
to Littleton every day.. or I can USPS ship it for a couple $.
--
Martin K.

[Steve Grandpre]

I might be interested.  What do you use for software to program it?

-Steve Grandpre

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From: steveg...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:25:09 -0500
Subject: [Dorkbot Boston] Re: FS: Xilinx FPGA board
To: dorkbo...@googlegroups.com

[Martin K]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Steve Grandpre <steveg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I might be interested.  What do you use for software to program it?
>
> -Steve Grandpre
>

Sorry Steve I sold it a few weeks ago.

If anyone is interested in getting started using FPGAs I'd be happy to
help out. You can buy inexpensive FPGA boards from digilentinc.com

The two major FPGA vendors are Xilinx and Altera. They both have free
(alternately very expensive), highly integrated, software for use.

FPGAs use HDL - Hardware Description Language. HDL is a generic term
for specific languages like Verilog or VHDL.

FPGAs are really good at doing a very specific operation very fast.
For example say you have to calculate some really long arbitrary
multiply/add equation 10 million times a second - an FPGA would be
good for that.

FPGAs can also be good for blinking LEDs, controlling motors, and the like =)

-
Martin K

[Mark Chang]

I'll echo that digilent is a great place to get started. If we want to
have a "learning" day sometime, I'd be happy to do some instruction
and help get people up to speed.

--
Mark L. Chang