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From: Lauro, John<jlauro@u...>
Date: Fri Mar 24 05:44:54 CET 2006
Subject: [oc] Other Open cores
Hello,I am new to this list, and new to fpga, and diving in way above my
head in terms of my basic electronics knowledge... however just
stumbling across the technology (isn't the www, google, wikipedia,
etc... great!), this stuff looks really interesting and something I
would like to learn for fun...
Sorry for the newbie questions, but I did skim the FAQ and some of the
list archive.... (but, may have missed something...)
1. Is there a place where other "free" cores are listed? I have come
across several on this site. Even if the project is not maintained
here, I would think it to be useful if there are links somewhere to
other locations. For example, Sun's new OpenSPARC T1... at
http://opensparc.sunsource.net/nonav/index.html, and Xilinx.com has
several free (some are free, and it looks like some more are free if
you get their development board and tools, and others are simply not
free). Plus a few other sites I ran across that I don't recall.
2. On the subject of the Sparc T1... has anyone tried to place it on
an fpga yet? If so, will it fit, and what speed/fpga? Can it easily
fit on multiple FPGAs?
3. This was sort of on the archive, but not completely... As a
beginner, what development board should I get? Correct me if I'm
wrong... but, I think the Spartan-3E starter kit is too small/slow
for what I really want to do (including gigabit Ethernet interface).
However, I think it will be powerful enough to test parts of my ideas
without investing a lot of money, at which point I should be able to
just purchase the higher-end chips, or get bored... and it will let me
experiment with their EDK in addition to the ISE (which alone might be
enough to test some ideas on paper with the schematic and other
tools). I also assume the EDK would be even better to start with for
a beginner. Does any other vendor include as much software with their
development boards? (or offer low-cost software)? Even if the
software options are not as good, does any other vendor offer higher
speed or higher density parts for a better price? I don't want to get
too used to the Xilinx tools if that not what I want to end up with
when I need a bigger/faster fpga...
4. I think I seen answers to this already in the archives, so feel
free to skip... Any recommended resources for VHDL or Verilog (books,
weblinks, etc..) would be appreciated. From what little I have seen,
some of the open cores I am interested in appear to be in Verilog and
others appear to be in VHDL, so I will probably need to learn a at
least a little of each...
Thanks.
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