Lpc2000

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From: "microbit" <microbit@...>
To: <lpc2100@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [lpc2100] LPC2106 and FPGA


> Hi Alex,
>
> I've been told the Actel Flash FPGAs are quite good. One day I might look
> into
> that, but it needs to have a free synthesis/fitting (at the least) tool
for
> VHDL
> development to try it.
> I don't particularly like the idea of my system core sitting in RAM in an
> FPGA,
> for various reasons, but anywho.
>
> I'm told by a collegue that Altera nowadays have VHDL free as well as part
> of Quartus or MaxPlusII or whatever.
> Any comments there Leon, I remember you've used Altera extensively before.

The free University version of MaxPlus supports VHDL. You can download it if
you are not at a university, of course. I'm not sure about Quartus. Xilinx
WebPack supports VHDL as well.

Leon
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Leon Heller, G1HSM
Email: aqzf13@...
My low-cost Philips LPC210x ARM development system:
http://www.geocities.com/leon_heller/lpc2104.html