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user242294
user242294

Reputation: 318

Looking for a micro programmable FPGA + machine

I'm looking for a FPGA + machine.

It should be entry level pricing (e.g no more than $200).

EDIT: I want to make an ASM chart and program the FPGA to act like I specified in the chart

Upvotes: 5

Views: 663

Answers (8)

davidd
davidd

Reputation: 813

It sounds like you are looking for something like this:

http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/AES-S6MB-LX9.htm

or

http://www.altera.com/b/nios-bemicro-evaluation-kit.html

Xilinx, Altera, and Lattice all have inexpensive ( < $200) FPGA development cards. Based on your stated needs just about any of them would do. If all you need is to implement a state machine a CPLD would even fit your needs. Without knowing more it would be hard to recommend an exact card. Based on the series of edits in your question it would probably be good to go through some introduction to fpga online training.

Some resources:

http://www.xilinx.com/csi/training/basic-hdl-coding-techniques-part1.htm

http://www.fpga4fun.com/

or search for "fpga tutorial" with the search engine of your choice

Upvotes: 1

mikecsh
mikecsh

Reputation: 862

Opal Kelly sell some great USB FPGA dev kits for a reasonable price. Along with the hardware, they also ship the RTL (FPGA logic) to allow your design to communicate via USB and a C based API to allow your software on the other side to talk to the FPGA design.

Upvotes: 0

Yann Vernier
Yann Vernier

Reputation: 15887

I would consider somewhat of a blend here. Gadget factory offer the Papilio One, which is an FPGA development board with an Arduino microcontroller as the first example. You can then choose to blend the two as you wish. The downsides are that it has less ready-made peripherals, such as ADCs, buttons, or LEDs, and that the low voltage circuitry cannot withstand 5V. There's a bunch of (more expensive) addons to fix that, though.

I'm not sure what you mean by an ASM chart, but there are schematic and flowchart programming tools around, for instance in Webpack or Great Cow Graphical Basic.

Upvotes: 0

Quonux
Quonux

Reputation: 2991

You can also try NEXYS 2 (its the successor of the NEXYS board). It do have more RAM and some more Gadgets :)

The documentation(of the FPGA from Xilinx) is just great and big and there are some example-projects out there for this board.

Upvotes: 0

Jotux
Jotux

Reputation: 157

Atmel sells a device with a 5-20k gate FPGA integrated with an 8bit AVR core.

http://www.atmel.com/products/fpslic/

Also, for everyone recommending microcontrollers like the Arduino platform and BASIC stamp: They are not FPGAs.

Upvotes: 2

FryGuy
FryGuy

Reputation: 8744

I would try the NEXYS for an FPGA.

To everyone else: the Aruino isn't an FPGA. It's a hardware specification/programming framework that uses the atmega microcontroller line.

Upvotes: 3

Igor Pavelek
Igor Pavelek

Reputation: 1444

What about this one? IGEPv2 Board

It runs very smooth. We have web server running on it and it's about the size of a credit card.

There is another similar project: http://beagleboard.org/, which is an open-source hardware and costs about the same as IGEP.

Upvotes: 3

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 499152

Have you looked at the Arduino?

Upvotes: 3

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