December AnttiBrain_Issue16 when?

[gedas]

When December AnttiBrain_Issue16 will be released? I'm waiting, thanks
for hard work Antti :)

B.R. Keep It Up

[Vince]

I just saw the following in a onlineshop:
http://shop.trenz-electronic.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=640
TrioFlex ST32PA3-AP8 (FPGA module Atmel AVR compatible) maybe this is
something for the new release? :-)

Keep up the great work Antti

[David Rorex]

From a quick look, seems like all he did was buy a $10 actel FPGA, load a free AVR core from opencores.org or elsewhere, and stick it on a little PCB. It has a tiny program rom storage area, only 128 bytes? but runs at a fairly fast (for an 8-bit AVR) 25MIPS. Not sure why you would buy this 29EUR FPGA that's doing the same job as a $2 AVR microcontroller. Maybe there is some space left over in the FPGA to put your own HDL along with the AVR core? It doesn't say.

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[antti....@googlemail.com]

it's sometime hard to keep it up, but we do our best, all of us

those ST32 modules are designed by me, and well are actually ready for
sales, some documentation and examples are also all ready to go, but
there is too much other tasks that some things delay.

Antti
PS the january issue will hopefully have some more technical content
again

[antti....@googlemail.com]

On Jan 6, 12:40 am, David Rorex <dro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From a quick look, seems like all he did was buy a $10 actel FPGA, load a
> free AVR core from opencores.org or elsewhere, and stick it on a little PCB.
> It has a tiny program rom storage area, only 128 bytes? but runs at a fairly
> fast (for an 8-bit AVR) 25MIPS. Not sure why you would buy this 29EUR FPGA
> that's doing the same job as a $2 AVR microcontroller. Maybe there is some
> space left over in the FPGA to put your own HDL along with the AVR core? It
> doesn't say.
>

about right, well you have not inquired the OEM pricing for the
module :)
the price may go down to 11-12$

The module in the shop is PRELOADED with customized AVR core
and small SD card bootstrap, and yes there is still some little room
left for custom hardware. But the module could be used for anything
else as well, it is not necessary to to use the preloaded FPGA image.

This module with Actel device can not load alternative FPGA
configurations
but another module that is also ready for sales that is based on
Silicon
Blue FPGA can (it has 2 Mbyte SPI flash to store one bootstrap
and 3 user configurations and user data)

Antti