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From: nwreader on 17 Oct 2009 01:21
Is there any interest in a group buy & design of a Xilinx fpga board ?
I would like a fairly large Spartan FPGA + lots of IO expansion + low cost
$200 - $250 usd.
The exisiting FPGA boards on the market seems either too expensive or small
FPGA or too little
expansion potential.

The idea is to get a high capacity & low cost expandable board via a group
buy to save on the
PCB + assembly. Probably only for US participants.


From: Antti on 17 Oct 2009 04:18
On Oct 17, 8:21 am, "nwreader" <no...(a)home.com> wrote:
> Is there any interest in a group buy & design of a Xilinx fpga board ?
> I would like a fairly large Spartan FPGA + lots of IO expansion + low cost
> $200 - $250 usd.
> The exisiting FPGA boards on the market seems either too expensive or small
> FPGA or too little
> expansion potential.
>
> The idea is to get a high capacity & low cost expandable board via a group
> buy to save on the
> PCB + assembly. Probably only for US participants.

hi

S3ADSP board from trenz may actually fit your requirements
those modules are not yet in their online shop, but you can
see high res photos of the modules in Antti-Brain august 2008 issue
first units are actually sold, and the modules should be very soon
be available for general buy also, the main goal for that board was
low cost lots of resources, thats also the reason for low cost
connectors being used - 1.27mm headers not the hirose as other
modules from trenz

a baseboard will also be available with breakout of the module
to 4 x 2x20 100mil headers

Antti






From: glen herrmannsfeldt on 17 Oct 2009 04:56
nwreader <noone(a)home.com> wrote:
> Is there any interest in a group buy & design of a Xilinx fpga board ?
> I would like a fairly large Spartan FPGA + lots of IO expansion + low cost
> $200 - $250 usd.
> The exisiting FPGA boards on the market seems either too
> expensive or small FPGA or too little expansion potential.

One that I have wondered about for a while:

Can the Digilent S3E board take a larger FPGA than the one
it comes with? That wouldn't require a new board design, though
it does require unsoldering and soldering.

-- glen
From: Antti on 17 Oct 2009 05:35
On Oct 17, 11:56 am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...(a)ugcs.caltech.edu>
wrote:
> nwreader <no...(a)home.com> wrote:
> > Is there any interest in a group buy & design of a Xilinx fpga board ?
> > I would like a fairly large Spartan FPGA + lots of IO expansion + low cost
> > $200 - $250 usd.
> > The exisiting FPGA boards on the market seems either too
> > expensive or small FPGA or too little expansion potential.
>
> One that I have wondered about for a while:
>
> Can the Digilent S3E board take a larger FPGA than the one
> it comes with?  That wouldn't require a new board design, though
> it does require unsoldering and soldering.
>
> -- glen

what board you mean?
digilent s3e board was available with s3e-1600 what is the largest s3e
for a while
i think they stopped selling it

Antti
From: glen herrmannsfeldt on 17 Oct 2009 05:40
Antti <antti.lukats(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 17, 11:56?am, I wrote:
>> nwreader <no...(a)home.com> wrote:
>> > Is there any interest in a group buy & design of a Xilinx fpga board ?
>> > I would like a fairly large Spartan FPGA + lots of
>> > IO expansion + low cost $200 - $250 usd.

>> > The exisiting FPGA boards on the market seems either too
>> > expensive or small FPGA or too little expansion potential.

>> One that I have wondered about for a while:

>> Can the Digilent S3E board take a larger FPGA than the one
>> it comes with? ?That wouldn't require a new board design, though
>> it does require unsoldering and soldering.

> what board you mean?
> digilent s3e board was available with s3e-1600 what is the
> largest s3e for a while i think they stopped selling it

As far as I know, it comes only with the S3E-500.

Otherwise, it would seem a fine board for the OP.

-- glen
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