Alternative To Altera's Cyclone III Starter Board

[Abby Brown]

Hi,

Does someone produce a cheaper and simpler substitute for
Altera's Cyclone III starter board? It needs to connect to a
laptop to download configuration and test cases and upload
results (ICT). A driver that connects to Windows .Net would be
ideal.

Thanks,
Gary

 

[Bryan]

Here's a Xilinx option for $89. FPGA configuration, Flash
programming, hardware debugging, and MicroBlaze debugging are all
available through the on-board USB-JTAG circuit using iMPACT,
ChipScope, and SDK. I'm not aware of a Windows .NET driver for it.

www.em.avnet.com/s6microboard

Bryan


On Mar 14, 6:38 pm, "Abby Brown" <abbybr...@charter.net> wrote:

Hi,

Does someone produce a cheaper and simpler substitute for
Altera's Cyclone III starter board?  It needs to connect to a
laptop to download configuration and test cases and upload
results (ICT).  A driver that connects to Windows .Net would be
ideal.

Thanks,
Gary

 

[Anssi Saari]

"Abby Brown" <abbybrown@charter.net> writes:

Hi,

Does someone produce a cheaper and simpler substitute for
Altera's Cyclone III starter board? It needs to connect to a
laptop to download configuration and test cases and upload
results (ICT). A driver that connects to Windows .Net would be
ideal.

Terasic makes a cheap Cyclone III board, model DE0. They have academic
pricing too if it's for school. Don't know anything about connecting
to .net though.

 

[rickman]

On Mar 14, 6:38 pm, "Abby Brown" <abbybr...@charter.net> wrote:

Hi,

Does someone produce a cheaper and simpler substitute for
Altera's Cyclone III starter board?  It needs to connect to a
laptop to download configuration and test cases and upload
results (ICT).  A driver that connects to Windows .Net would be
ideal.

Thanks,
Gary

I have to say I am pretty ignorant of .NET other than this was
Microsoft's response when Sun told them to stop tinkering with JAVA.
What would the driver accomplish and how would you use it?

Rick

 

[Abby Brown]

"rickman" <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 14, 6:38 pm, "Abby Brown" <abbybr...@charter.net> wrote:

Hi,

Does someone produce a cheaper and simpler substitute for
Altera's Cyclone III starter board? It needs to connect to a
laptop to download configuration and test cases and upload
results (ICT). A driver that connects to Windows .Net would be
ideal.

Thanks,
Gary

: I have to say I am pretty ignorant of .NET other than this was
: Microsoft's response when Sun told them to stop tinkering with
JAVA.
: What would the driver accomplish and how would you use it?

: Rick

It obviates a logic simulator (Altera's free one is limited).
Use the actual device instead. I can automate test cases with a
C# program. I used to write logic simulators for a living and
hate the damn things.

Gary