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From: Fabrizio Fazzino<fabrizio@f...>
Date: Sun May 28 20:42:50 CEST 2006
Subject: [oc] Development board for OpenSPARC
Many thanks Gunnar,
I found your informations very useful.
I just had to note that the cheapest board based
upon a 200K Virtex-4 device has a cost of 8,000 US$
or so.

Cheers,
Fabrizio


Gunnar Dahlgren wrote:
> Check out The Dini group, http://www.dinigroup.com
> They have a range of boards based on Xilinx/Altera, and for being in the
> "ASIC prototyping" arena their prices are quite affordable (the cost of
> their boards are like "the cost of the FPGAs plus some margin", as
> opposed to some of their competitors that charge an order of magnitude
> more).
>
> Compared to the competition they are quite much "do it yourself", ie
> they don't supply a lot of flashy software to help you make the boards
> do something useful.
>
> Our neighbours Hardi electronics, http://www.hardi.se, also have some V4
> boards that probably would work for you.
>
> A good starting point for finding these and others is Synplicity's web:
> http://www.synplicity.com/partners/pip/index.html
>
> Best regards
> Gunnar Dahlgren
> Axis Communications AB, Sweden


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