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From: setup on 31 Oct 2005 16:56 In article <dk5p1q$1c90$1(a)f04n12.cac.psu.edu>, emh203(a)psu.edu says... > Peter Alfke wrote: > > New Zealand is ahead of the rest of the world, as usual... > > Peter > > So when will the Spartan 3e actually be available?????? I can't even > get my hands on a few chips. This is somewhat upsetting because the > same thing happening with the Spartan 3. > > Even though I love the Xilinx stuff, it seems really damn hard to get > the parts! > > -Eli I just received 8 XC3S500-4PQ208CES's (engineering samples) from AvNet a week or so ago. I'm wishing I would have used a Spartan 2E now because I can't seem to get a 8bit BLVDS working. It receives but it does not transmit. Same circuit works on VertexII and Spartan2E no problem... -- Greg Deuerling Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory P.O.Box 500 MS368 Batavia, IL 60510 (630)840-4629 FAX (630)840-5406 Electronic Systems Engineering Group Work: egads_AT_fnal.gov, remove '_AT_'
From: Benjamin Todd on 1 Nov 2005 06:29 If it's any help I just (last week) ordered a S3E evaluation board through avnet, they said it'll be here tomorrow (2.11) It's not the Xilinx one, but if you _really_ want an S3E, you know where to go... =) Ben "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote in message news:qhd5lll09x.fsf(a)ruckus.brouhaha.com... > "Antti Lukats" <antti(a)openchip.org> writes: >> to my surprise Avnet claimed that they have shipped about 400 s3e kits >> and > > That's their own XC3S100E board, not the Xilinx starter board with the > XC3S500E.
From: Antti Lukats on 1 Nov 2005 07:02 "Jim Granville" <no.spam(a)designtools.co.nz> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4366a1ff$1(a)clear.net.nz... > Antti Lukats wrote: > > <snip> >> sneak preview: on my harddisk I have a tool I call 'Logic Assembler' it >> can serve as front end for almost any FPGA/PLD for what the vendor >> fitter/mapper exists. > > Hi Antti, > Care to post some code examples ? Output format(s) ? > -jg > > main output format is vendor specific EDIF input formats supported for now are logic assembler text mode or xilinx ISE schematics. also working on netlist imports from CAE tools. below is test code that work on Atmel FPSLIC starterboard. the output is processed with Atmel Figaro. ---------------------- ..vendor atmel ..family at94k ..library at94k input I output O input I1 output O1 ibuf I_IBUF obuf O_OBUF ibuf I_IBUF1 obuf O_OBUF1 O = O_OBUF.PAD I_IBUF.PAD = I O_OBUF.A = I_IBUF.Q O1 = O_OBUF1.PAD I_IBUF1.PAD = I1 O_OBUF1.A = I_IBUF1.Q ---------------------- really simple.
From: Antti Lukats on 1 Nov 2005 07:07 "Benjamin Todd" <benjamin.toddREMOVEALLCAPITALS(a)cernREMOVEALLCAPITALS.ch> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:dk7jil$4n$1(a)sunnews.cern.ch... > If it's any help I just (last week) ordered a S3E evaluation board through > avnet, they said it'll be here tomorrow (2.11) > It's not the Xilinx one, but if you _really_ want an S3E, you know where > to go... =) > Ben > > "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote in message > news:qhd5lll09x.fsf(a)ruckus.brouhaha.com... >> "Antti Lukats" <antti(a)openchip.org> writes: >>> to my surprise Avnet claimed that they have shipped about 400 s3e kits >>> and >> >> That's their own XC3S100E board, not the Xilinx starter board with the >> XC3S500E. > > yes I know the avnet board,.I wanted to get it the day it was announced, but at work everybody refuses to talk about s3e. and dont think I can order as private person :( So the only way to get this board would be to pay some friend that orders for his company and then ships it to me. Antti
From: Peter Alfke on 2 Nov 2005 17:20
I promised an answer. The digging took a bit longer... The good news is that Xilinx has many thousands of S3e100 in TQ144, and hundreds in vq100 packages, as well as many S3500 in several packages. The bad new is that -today- these parts are still ES ("early silicon") which distribution hates to touch, because the parts will become obsolete very soon, once the production version becomes available. If you need them immediately, order them through your distributor or your Xilinx sales folks. And realize that "6 to 8 weeks" is often exaggerated. Production S3e100 and 500s are expected this month, and 1600 soon after. And the distis will love to sell them (which they consider their job, even in Europe !). I have held the almost final version of the S3e500-based evaluation board in my hand. It is dynamite, loaded with features and peripherl circuits, compatible with a slew of inexpensive Digilent add-on boards. Availability starts in December. Well before that, there will be a business-card-size eval board, packaged in a DVD-case, meant as a super-low-cost S3e100 demonstrator. Spartan3e is really rolling, and will soon be a big success. Too bad that Marketing created expectations that were impossible to meet. Keep the faith, Spartan3e is real, and it is coming! Peter Alfke, Xilinx |