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From: MISHODOAR@h...
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:50:52 +0200
Subject: Re: [oc] sharing (was: similar project)
HEY , I FOUND YOU BY GOOGLE I NEED THE CONFIGURATION OF
TOSHIBA MEMORY #TC59S6416FT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT.
THAKS ALOT
----- Original Message -----
From: Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel@m... >
To: Damjan Lampret <lampret@o... >
cores@o...
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 21:01:10 -0200
Subject: [oc] sharing (was: similar project)
>
>
> > our cores will be free, open source. You can use them if you
> want.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Also you
> > can help us with the cores.
>
> We certainly are going in the same direction! I am going to make
> my design available under two licenses (not quite open source):
>
> A) you can do whatever you want with it, but must publish any
> changes and can't use your own trademarks with it
>
> B) you must pay royalty, but don't have to publish changes and
> can use whatever names you want with it
>
> That doesn't mean that I can't make some pieces of it (like the
> USB or Firewire cores) available as open source - the above
> licenses are only for the whole design.
>
> A more serious problem is that I feel I will have to design at
> a much lower level than VHDL in order to fit all I need into
> a Virtex 300. And while all the cores I have seen are 100%
> hardware, I intend to move as much functionality as possible
> to the software in order to squeeze everything in there.
>
> > Anyway merlin6 is similar to our SFPGA board. If
> > you already working on merlin6 you could perhaps give us some
> suggestions
> > what chips to use.
>
> You have already choosen the FPGAs, so the results of my little
> research (http://www.lsi.usp.br/~jecel/fpga.shtml) won't be of
> much help. For the rest of the chips, I tried to keep the
> number of vendors down and so intend to use:
>
> Toshiba TC58FVT016FT-85 2Mx8 3.3V Flash Memory
> Toshiba TC59S6416FT-10 4Mx16 10ns SDRAM (or DIMM sockets
> instead?)
> Toshiba TC55V2325FF-100J 64Kx32 3.3V 100MHz Synchronous SRAM
> Cirrus Logic CS8952 100BASE-TX xcvr
> Philips PDIUSBP11A usb xcvr
> Philips PDI1394P11 3 port phy Firewire
> Philips SAA7111A video in processor
> Philips SAA7125 video encoder
> Philips UCB1200 modem/audio
> Philips PCF8583 i2c Real Time Clock, 240 bytes SRAM
> Philips UDA1340 stereo codec w/DSP functions
>
> Note that Xilinx, Toshiba and Cirrus Logic are represented by
> Insight Electronics. Nearly all the Philips chips could be replaced
> by ones from Texas Instruments with similar results (in the case
> of Firewire, better results since the PDI1394P11 doesn't handle
> 400 Mbps). Here are some prices I have found for the above
> compenents: 8.25, 14.25, 5.63, 8.60, 0.67, 5.57, 10.00, 12.57,
> 9.94, 2.91 (quantity of 200s) and I didn't find the price for the
> audio codec but would be surprised if it costs over US$4.00.
>
> I also considered using the Philips TDA8772H/8 triple 85MHz DAC
> (US$4.73) for a cheap SVGA output, but ran out of space/pins
> on the main FPGA.
>
> I haven't kept the price lists updated, but you might want to
> look at:
>
> http://www.merlintec.com/merlin6/io.prices
> http://www.merlintec.com/merlin6/virtex.prices
> http://www.merlintec.com/merlin6/x4000xla.prices
> http://www.merlintec.com/merlin6/memory.prices
>
> > Xilinx will probably port their tools to Linux as demand
> increases.
> > Basically you need only P&R tools. For VHDL/Verilog
> compile you can use some
> > other tools that run (or will run) on Linux, commercial or
> free. For example
> > Xilinx Foundation uses Synopsys FPGA Express compiler for VHDL
> synthesis.
>
> I also happen to have a Sun running Solaris, but I expect Xilinx
> tools for it are much more expensive than the Windows versions.
>
> -- Jecel
>
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