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RE FPGA development - we just bought the Spartan-3 Starter Kit (Xilinx) 
for about $100 and
it is a great part, and cheap, and you can get going on it fairly 
quickly.  The development board
comes with a BGA 256 part, but we'll be using a PQ208. 
PCI and many other cores are free, and design is by Verilog, VHDL , or 
schematic (or combination).


Mike Murphree wrote:

>On Sep 6, 2004, at 9:38 AM, <r_reeves@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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>>I don't know much about them, but we use Xilinx dev boards to teach 
>>VHDL etc at work (a uni, but I do the analogue labs.)  I had a quick 
>>look at their website and found the Spartan II PCI development system. 
>> It's 250USD on their site.  Software I don't know about, but I 
>>*think* they offer a free / cheap solution.  Not sure about that.  Pop 
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>>http://www.xilinx.com/ and search for their DS-KIT-2S200.
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>Another vendor with interesting (and cheap) development boards and 
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>http://www.nuhorizons.com/fpga/index.html
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>Adding the three magic letters "PCI" will drive up the cost a lot, but 
>learn on a cheap board, then rolling your own board is a reasonable 
>approach.  I pretty sure you can do PCI with the Spartan II and III 
>families.  NuHorizons also has a JTAG cable for $20 versus $100 direct 
>from Xilinx.
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>Mike
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