Where to buy a custom LX9 board

[Daniel Benitez]

Hello,

Recently, I developed a little project to control a CMOS camera sensor from a Raspberry PI using FPGALink and a Nexys2-500 board. FPGALink has been essential for the success of this project, so I am very grateful to all the people supporting this excellent tool, and especially to Chris. 

Right now I would like to begin another project based again on FPGALink, but I have to give back the Nexys2-500 board I used for the previous project and I was thinking about using a cheaper option, so I would like to try the open hardware LX9 board that Chris has developed. I have thought about the possibility of build it myself, but to be frank I am not used to do PCB design, and I am afraid that I would lose too much time trying to make it work. So I was wondering if there is any company or someone that could sell me one of these LX9 boards.

Thank you very much for you support and help.

Best regards,

Daniel   

[Chris McClelland]

Some people have recently had 5x runs of my LX9 board made in China for $446.08:

http://gendev.spritesmind.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2135#p27033

Interestingly, the manufacturer was willing to ship each board separately, and deal with separate invoicing too. So you just need to find four other interested people, on this list or elsewhere.

Alternatively, you could buy an aes220 from Aessent Tech for £84. It's a board with similar capabilities except it lacks the SD-card slot. It's physically smaller, but with a larger FPGA (albeit from an older generation). It supports FPGALink nicely, including the various HDL examples (e.g the SDRAM example). And they're proudly manufactured in Scotland too!

http://www.aessent.com/products/aes220-minimodule.html#!/~/product/id=52901862

Do you have any pages on the web, or social media posts about your project?

Chris

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[Tim Ansell]

I don't know of other boards which actually support FPGALink but there is great list of Spartan 6 boards at http://joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards

You might want to look at the miniSpartan6+ boards; https://www.scarabhardware.com/minispartan6/

Tim 'mithro' Ansell

[Chris McClelland]

The Scarab Hardware board has an FTDI chip for USB, which does not support FPGALink. Originally I intended to add FTDI support, but the shit they pulled[1] a year or so ago changed my mind: I refuse to have anything to do with them, and I advise others to do likewise.

[1]http://www.zdnet.com/article/ftdi-admits-to-bricking-innocent-users-chips-in-silent-update/

[Sab V]

I am interested in getting a board made too. For prototyping and just for the fun of it, I am having one made on 2 layers from dirty PCB. I dont know if it will work, but if it does it will be dirt cheap. The component prices are actually pretty cheap if you buy it in bulk. 

[Daniel Benitez]

Thank you very much to all of you for the information provided.

To get an AES220 could be an option, but it still too much for the project I want to face now.

The option to get LX9 board from China sounds good. I will try to contact Montserrat to see if it is possible to get the board from China.

Chris, to your question related to my project, it has been a development of an interface between an OmniVision OV5642 sensor and a Raspberry PI for a master degree at the University. Right now, I do not have found the time to share it on the web, but if anybody is interested, I have no problem on provide information about it.

Regards, and thank you again for your support,

Daniel

[Peter Stuge]

Chris McClelland wrote:
> FTDI

> I refuse to have anything to do with them, and I advise others to
> do likewise.

Besides their political issue they also offer very poor value for money.


//Peter