[Oberon] Oberon-specific Spartan-6 FPGA board

[Frans-Pieter Vonck]

I think that the spartan-3 family with sram is no longer produced.
I found this company microsemi that seems to have a low level fpga that
supports sram, the igloo2

http://www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/fpga/igloo2-fpga

Greets,
F.P.

> Chris
>
> Agree. SRAM is important. HDMI could be optional if we are able to take a
> cheaper FPGA (because of reduced speed requirements --> VGA: 75 MHz, HDMI:
> 750 MHz)
>
> Some free pins, being able to add Ethernet later on, e.g. the WIZnet
> WIZ550io (W5500)
>
> br
> Jörg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Burrows [mailto:chris at cfbsoftware.com]
> Sent: Freitag, 15. Mai 2015 15:47
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: [Oberon] Oberon-specific Spartan-6 FPGA board
>
> Magnus Karlsson (the guy from Saanlima electronics who designed the
> Pipistrello + Oberon Wing (2MB of SRAM) Spartan-6 Oberon developmnt board)
> is asking for feedback on a proposed Oberon-specific Spartan-6 FPGA board
> as
> follows:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Oberon-specific FPGA board:
>
> The Pipistrello is way overkill for this, it would be much cheaper to make
> a
> new board with all the features needed but not more. This would be
> straight-forward to do but it would be nice to have a list of things on
> this
> board and not just copy the featues of the Digilent Spartan-3 board.
>
> I was thinking the following connectors on the back: KBD, Mouse, HDMI,
> VGA,
> USB, Power
> And the following on the front: Power on/off switch, power LED, full-size
> SD
> card, 8 LED, 8 dip-switches.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If you have any suggestions you can reply to his message on the Saanlima
> forum:
>
> http://saanlima.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1246&start=10#p1488
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> http://www.cfbsoftware.com
>
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