[Coco] [!! SPAM] Re: Cococompatible monitors...

[Joel Ewy]

On 07/05/2011 09:04 AM, gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 09:50:20 AM John Kent did opine:
>
>> On 5/07/2011 3:36 AM, gene heskett wrote:
>>> And this DE1 board I assume has a cost of?  URL please John.
>>>
>>> Cheers, gene
>> Terasic DE1 is here:
>> http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?No=83
> No doubt capable, but way too big to hide in a cc3 unless the whole coco
> was emulated.
>
>> It uses an Altera Cyclone II.
>> It's what Gary uses for his CoCo3FPGA.
>>
>> He has also used the Digilent Spartan 3 starter board in the past too
>> using the Xilinx 1000Kgate Spartan 3
>> http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=S3BOARD
>>
> That maybe could be hidden under the keyboard.  With a vga output no less.

I can attest to the fact that the Digilent Spartan 3 board will 
comfortably fit in a CoCo 3 case:  
http://8littlebits.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/an-old-case-for-a-new-coco/

> Would I have to run the development system on windows?  If yes, no deal.

The software runs under Linux.  It's a 970M download.

JCE

>> There is also a 200Kgate version of the board, which is not big enough
>> for the CoCo3FPGA, but is big enough for a basic 6809 system with UART,
>> VDU, Timer, PS/2 keyboard, monitor ROM  and 1MB of SRAM.
>>
>> The 1000Kgate Spartan 3 chip has the same FT256 BGA package as the 200K
>> gate part I think.
>>
>> There is also the XuLA board which has a 50Kgate or 200Kgate Spartan 3A
>> that fits on a 40 pin header and has 4MWords x 16 bits of SDRAM.
>> http://www.xess.com/prods/prod048.php
>>
> For about 90 bucks and some time, that looks like a usable gizmo.  IIRC,
> the development stuff for xilinx is nearly free, so that, and custom made
> breakout cables might add a lot of functionality to a coco3.
>
>> There are a number of other Xilinx boards from Digilent Inc. and others.
>>
>> Digilent is to Xilinx what Terasic is to Altera.
>>
>> There are pictures of the FPGA boards I use on my FPGA page:
>> http://members.optusnet.com.au/jekent/FPGA.htm
> bookmarked.
> Thanks John.
>
> Cheers, gene