It's also REALLY nice if you have one or two small things that need real-time performance better than 10ms (the kernel timeslice it ships with). "A few hundred nanoseconds" is pretty good realtime response. ;-)
The toolflow is not bad at all. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Greg London <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hm, spec for fpga is here: > > http://www.latticesemi.com/documents/HB1004.pdf > > Not too shabby. It's a small FPGA, but good for glue. > > Almost everyone who does embedded stuff > needs some external glue logic to interface with the real > world. This is a nice way to eliminate external hardware > and still allow customization. > > 5k of clb's is probably enough to make a custom > serial interface, or custom parallel, or custom > timer or custom whatever interface. > > No idea how hard the toolflow is to use, but the price is nice. > > Greg
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