> E.g., a simple M1 daughter board with a CPLD (CPLDs are the "little > brothers" of FPGAs) or a low-end FPGA could also be useful as a > programmable test pattern generator or dummy device for analyzing > FPGA behaviour.
Excellent new idea! :-) I added it to this page for now collecting ideas for daughterboards http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Milkymist_One_accessories#daugherboards The accessories page needs a lot of cleanup, but it's a good storage of links and ideas for now... I do think we should make the lowest-cost developer board possible at some point, even leaving out the power supply, maybe leaving some chips or connectors unpopulated or unsoldered, etc. I will focus on cost-down for the full video synthesizer first, and make it cheaper and easier to build derivative or improved products out of the platform. We can then use that for all sorts of things, including cheap hacker entry level boards... The idea of putting another fpga/cpld on a daughterboard is also great imho. THANKS! Wolfgang _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkymist@Freenode
