Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-30 Thread Colin O'Flynn
Hey, I've CC'd this to avr-chat, so we can move the discussion over there... > The silicon is very cheap for what you get, but pay attention to the > configuration method; some configuration chips are 5x the price of the > FPGA! Not if you've got an AVR in your project. I just finished making a

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-30 Thread Colin Paul Gloster
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:48:07PM -0700, Matthew MacClary wrote: "[..] A key feature of avr-gcc that I need to keep is that the whole build process is scriptable. I am just getting into the Xilinx tool flow, but when I read through example projects that are basically all screen shots of mous

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-30 Thread David Brown
> Marvin Dickens wrote: > > On Friday 27 May 2005 07:22 pm, Martin Bammer wrote: > > > > Having learnt and used vhdl on xilinx spartanII in depth using webpack, and used > vhdl on altera acex, i found vhdl an overly verbose, inflexible, poorly designed > and cumbersome language. It is a pascal/ada

RE: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-29 Thread Matt.VanDeWerken
CTED] On Behalf Of Reza Naima Sent: Saturday, 28 May 2005 8:50 AM To: avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org Subject: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA) I've realized that I'm not going to be able to accomplish one of my projects using an AVR. I appologize for emailing on this forum, but there are

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-29 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:50:27PM -0700, Reza Naima wrote: > I've realized that I'm not going to be able to accomplish one of my > projects using an AVR. I appologize for emailing on this forum, but > there are a ton of smart and helpful people here so I thought I would > ask.. There's always th

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-28 Thread hanzl
> I would like to second Reza's question about what to do when it > starts looking like your project may need wider, faster computation? > Specifically does anyone have suggestions about how to get the > computation done and also leverage a team's experience with avr-gcc > style development?

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-28 Thread E. Weddington
Matthew MacClary wrote: I would like to second Reza's question about what to do when it starts looking like your project may need wider, faster computation? Specifically does anyone have suggestions about how to get the computation done and also leverage a team's experience with avr-gcc styl

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-28 Thread Joerg Wunsch
Reza Naima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I appologize for emailing on this forum, but there are a ton of > smart and helpful people here so I thought I would ask.. Please use avr-chat then. It per definitionem allows for almost all ``OT'' questions being still on-topic there, and most of the sub

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Marvin Dickens wrote: On Friday 27 May 2005 07:22 pm, Martin Bammer wrote: Hi, I can recommend SpartanII and Spartan3. These chips are quite cheap and powerful. A development system under Linux is available since a few months. It's free. I recommend to set kate as an external editor, because i

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-27 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Friday 27 May 2005 07:22 pm, Martin Bammer wrote: > Hi, > > I can recommend SpartanII and Spartan3. These chips are quite cheap and > powerful. A development system under Linux is available since a few months. > It's free. I recommend to set kate as an external editor, because it's so > much bet

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-27 Thread Matthew MacClary
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:22:52AM +0200, Martin Bammer wrote: > At the moment I prefer SpartanII because they only need 2 different > supply voltages. Spartan3 needs 3, which leads to a much more > complex design. The number of reference voltages isn't the whole story. AFAIK the power supply

Re: [avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Bammer
Hi, I can recommend SpartanII and Spartan3. These chips are quite cheap and powerful. A development system under Linux is available since a few months. It's free. I recommend to set kate as an external editor, because it's so much better to work with. At the moment I prefer SpartanII because th

[avr-gcc-list] [OT] Need For Speed (FPGA)

2005-05-27 Thread Reza Naima
I've realized that I'm not going to be able to accomplish one of my projects using an AVR. I appologize for emailing on this forum, but there are a ton of smart and helpful people here so I thought I would ask.. I'm looking at using an FPGA, and have never used one. I was wondering what a good