[Coco] FPGA the future of coco?

[Nick Marentes]

No, this is NOT a CoCo3 FPGA board. You'll need the full DE1 development 
board for that.

The idea of this is that it's the base platform for building one with 
the addition of an I/O board (extra memory, VGA connectors etc.)

Nick

On 16/09/2014 6:42 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> Not exactly complete. You will need the USB Blaster JTAG and this board has
> no SDRAM or SRAM. You will need to add them as well to make a VGA output
> and usb...
>
> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
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> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Frank Swygert  wrote:
>>> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:43:47 +1000
>>> From:nickma2
>>> Wow! the EP2C5T144C8N board is only $14.95AU on ebay!
>>>
>>> That a pretty good basis for a CoCo3 FPG design. Just add a daughter
>>> card with the required I/O.
>>> ========================================
>>>
>>> Nick, that's just the FPGA chip, no board. They sell for about that
>> price at
>>> Digi-key and Mouser here in the US. Looks like a surface mount chip, so
>> it
>>> would be hard to solder into anything at home.
>> No, that's the complete board. Add 4 AUD for shipping. Search for
>> EP2C5T144 on eBay.
>>
>> Tormod
>>
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