Hi Kirk. Mesa Electronics should be coming out with their 7I43 soon, which will be a reasonable alternative. It's listed as a USB-connected device, but it will be USB and/or parallel. Last I knew, Pete was working on getting it so you could use USB for power, and parallel for data (or USB for data, of course). The pricing I got (which may not have been final) was $89 each in single quantities. It's got a heck of a lot more gates than the pluto (200k or 400k, vs. 50k?), as well as more I/Os (48, on two 50-pin connectors like on their PCI cards)..
There won't be an EMC config for it for a little while, but since the VHDL/verilog code is quite portable, it's not too difficult to get it to work. It's even easier since Xilinx (the manufacturer of the chip on the 7i43) has free native Linux tools, whereas Altera (Pluto chip manufacturer) doesn't. Of course if you can use a PCI card then a Mesa 5i20 or 5i22 would do just fine also, though at significantly higher cost. - Steve Kirk Wallace wrote: >Apparently, Pluto is not available anymore. Are there any alternatives? >Are there firmware files available that would allow me to make my own? >Thanks. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
