[Coco] CoCo4! 50% done!

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 February 2014 23:02:03 Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 03 February 2014 22:28:32 Matthew Stock did opine:
> >> Nick,
> >> 
> >> Here's one source.  You need to also get the programming tools from
> >> Altera to program the FPGA, but you'd need to do that with any
> >> solution.  There are other sources as well.
> >> 
> >> http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&Ca
> >> teg oryNo=165&No=83
> > 
> > Which comes to $350 CAD
> > 
> >> http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de1/unv-de1-boa
> >> rd .html
> > 
> > The board is $200, software licensing cost is a secret.  I started to
> > register there once, 2 years ago according the autosaved login firefox
> > gave me, backed out when I saw the price, and have had to add their
> > IP to a mailfilter rule, several different times because they change
> > it, to get rid of the twice daily spam. Requests to turn off the spam
> > machine just doubled it.
> > 
> > IOW, screw them, and the camel that rode in on them.
> 
> The DE-1 comes with all the software you need to use CoCo3FPGA and
> also the software to do some amount of FPGA programming (I don't know
> exactly where the free version stops and the paid version begins, but
> it was never an issue because I have never done any FPGA programming
> at all :)
> 
> All you need to load CoCo3FPGA onto the DE-1 is the single .exe
> control panel app.  None of the programming software (free or paid) is
> needed.   The control panel is included on the CD that comes with the
> DE-1, or google will show you how to download it if you ask for
> DE1_Control_Panel.exe
> 
> -Aaron

That might make it a bit more palatable.  But I expect my next such board 
purchase will be a pair of BeagleBone Blacks, probably about the time one 
of my D525MW Atom boards dies. 2 of those are less than one DE1, although 
the interface expander is running about a $100 bill.  And it still fits in 
a t-shirt pocket.  Makerbot type machinery is being run from those right 
now.

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