[Oberon] Color: Was Re: Oberon-specific Spartan-6 FPGA board

[Douglas G. Danforth]

Naive question.
Is color display supported by such boards?
Or is it within the Oberon system that limits the display to b/w?
-Doug Danforth

On 5/15/2015 4:18 PM, Chris Burrows wrote:
> The Saanlima RISC FPGA Oberon development system I was referring to uses a
> *Spartan-6* and has up to 2MB of SRAM. Project Oberon 2013 has *already*
> been ported to it.
>
> Currently it is a two-board system - a general purpose FPGA board with an
> add-on board ('wing') for Oberon's keyboard, mouse and SRAM.
>
> http://www.saanlima.com/store/
>
> The proposal currently up for discussion is to suggest requirements for a
> simpler single-board system.
>
> Chris
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frans-Pieter Vonck [mailto:fp at vonck.nl]
>> Sent: Saturday, 16 May 2015 1:57 AM
>> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
>> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Oberon-specific Spartan-6 FPGA board
>>
>> 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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