Somewhat OT: FPGA Develpment Kits

[Dave McGuire]

On Nov 21, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
> I have some Perl that I wrote which will transform a netlist of  
> drawings based on the common DEC Mxxx modules into VHDL (generating  
> comments for the stuff left out).  Basically it has canned VHDL for  
> various modules that it instantiates based on the connections to  
> the module.

   I'd love to do something big with that.

>   I used it to do some VHDL for a TC08.
>   (Unfortunately I can't find a device with enough pins to handle  
> the result :-).)

   I'd solve that problem this way.  Take two FPGAs, implement a high- 
speed clocked shift register and use them as serializers/ 
deserializers in each one, with clock, data, and perhaps reset/init  
pins going between the two chips.  Use this setup to "mirror" a set  
of signals in one FPGA into the other.  Then you can move some of  
your I/O over to the other chip.

                     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL