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From: Fabrizio Fazzino<fabrizio@f...>
Date: Sun Dec 28 17:55:57 CET 2003
Subject: [oc] Newbie FPGA question
Hi guys,
I'm new to the FPGA world (I've been ASIC verifier for
some years but I've left the company and now I do not
work anymore in the electronics field) and I would like
to have an idea of the budget required to test my own
projects on FPGA.
I suspect that first of all you'll ask me how many
gates and I/O ports I need; let's say I'd like to try
an nnARM core + some peripherals (DMAC, PWM, RTC and
SRAM memory interface); You know better than me whether
this SoC requires thousands or million gates.
I would be happy with lower performances if this
ensures lower costs: just let the design fit into the
die.
Then, these are some newbie questions whose answers
will help other people in the same situation:
1) how much does (approx) the "FPGA programmer" cost?
2) what is its aspect? is it "huge" or just like an
external modem with one socket?
3) how much does the single programmable unit cost?
4) are the units programmable more than once?
5) from this user perspective, is there any difference
between an FPGA and a PLD?
6) do I need a strong competence in analog electronics
to build up the development board or is there any
standard board I can use with default allocation
of the pins (e.g. to access the onboard memory)?
Sorry for these questions but I have looked over the
web and have found only tons of advertisement.
Thank you very much in advance,
Fabrizio
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