[Oberon] FPGA Oberon some news and a reply to F.P.

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Srinivas Nayak [mailto:sinu.nayak2001 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 March 2014 8:31 PM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] FPGA Oberon some news and a reply to F.P.
> 
> I feel sad that Spartan 3 is becoming obsolete. So, I think, if FPGAOberon
is
> generic and not much dependent on specialties of Spartan 3, we should
> immediately make/port our FPGAOberon on/to a latest board.
> 

I agree. The more recent Spartan-3E based Nexys-2 board from Digilent looks
like it might be a good candidate as it also has a PS/2 port and VGA socket:

http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=NEXYS2

Better still - it looks as though it can be programmed via USB instead of
having to have to purchase an additional JTAG adapter,

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com