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Re: What FPGA kits did you buy? [message #95270] Wed, 29 December 2004 18:59 Go to next message
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"Scott McDonnell" <NetSamurai@comcast.net> spake the secret code
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> I am looking to buy a FPGA starter kit, just wondering what you guys started

> with. Any suggestions on books would be helpful, as well.


I've been looking at FPGA bootstrap options for a while as well. At
first I was thinking of buying one of those "reconfigurable computing"
cards for my PC, but now I'm kind of liking these products:
<http://www.burched.biz/>

My interest is in making a hardware math engine that does serial
arithmetic on VERY long mantissas -- 1024 bit or longer.
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Re: What FPGA kits did you buy? [message #95308 is a reply to message #95270] Wed, 29 December 2004 20:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Scott McDonnell is currently offline  Scott McDonnell
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"Rich" <legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com> wrote in message
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> "Scott McDonnell" <NetSamurai@comcast.net> spake the secret code

> <CtWdnR2b2dbZ2U7cRVn-sg@comcast.com> thusly:

>

>> I am looking to buy a FPGA starter kit, just wondering what you guys

started
>> with. Any suggestions on books would be helpful, as well.

>

> I've been looking at FPGA bootstrap options for a while as well. At

> first I was thinking of buying one of those "reconfigurable computing"

> cards for my PC, but now I'm kind of liking these products:

> <http://www.burched.biz/>

>

> My interest is in making a hardware math engine that does serial

> arithmetic on VERY long mantissas -- 1024 bit or longer.


Wow... look at that price!!
I had been looking at this one:
https://digilent.us/Sales/Product.cfm?Prod=S3BOARD
it is a 200K board rather than 300K, but comes with many of the
goodies you pay extra for with the other board. It also appears
that Xilinx works pretty closely with them since the starter boards
you can buy directly from Xilinx are digilent boards.

Any particular reason you chose the BurchED boards instead? This
is exactly why I wanted to ask this question. : )

Scott McDonnell
Re: What FPGA kits did you buy? [message #95323 is a reply to message #95308] Wed, 29 December 2004 23:14 Go to previous message
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"Scott McDonnell" <NetSamurai@comcast.net> spake the secret code
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> Wow... look at that price!!


Yeah, I saw that. I just stumbled across this place and it seemed
like a convenient 1-stop-shop. Of course, you pay something for
convenience. I haven't used any of these FPGA boards and have not
settled on any particular one, although my sheer laziness makes the
BurchEd stuff appealing.

I will look at the Digilent boards. I have a friend that is a local
SE for Xilinx and I should just pester him for something free :-)
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