Costs of IPs

[Frank Benoit]

Hi

Can anyone please give me an rough overview about prices of IPs for the
Xilinx Virtex II Pro? i.e.
10/100 Ethernet
CAN-Controller
LIN - Local Interconnect Network Bus Controller (iLIN)
Do I have to pay for each sold piece or one time or one time per project?

Frank

 

[Symon]

Frank,
I'm not being rude, but that's kinda like asking "Can you give me a brief
overview of the price of cars fuelled by petrol? i.e.
SUV
Compact
Luxury
Do I have to lease, finance or purchase?"

To answer your question, you gotta go to your local IP mall!

Have a nice weekend,
Syms

"Frank Benoit" <nospam@xyz.com> wrote in message
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Hi

Can anyone please give me an rough overview about prices of IPs for the
Xilinx Virtex II Pro? i.e.
10/100 Ethernet
CAN-Controller
LIN - Local Interconnect Network Bus Controller (iLIN)
Do I have to pay for each sold piece or one time or one time per project?

Frank

 

[Frank Benoit]

Yes, it is this kind of asking. In your example i think i can give an
answer. But with IPs? Do I have to think about 100$ or 100.000$ for an
ethernet mac? If every IP like the listed examples is about 10.000$ or
more I don't have to think about it any longer. If someone has examples,
it would be nice.

Frank

 

[Jon Beniston]

Frank Benoit <nospam@xyz.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.06.12.02.06.43.85995@xyz.com>...

Yes, it is this kind of asking. In your example i think i can give an
answer. But with IPs? Do I have to think about 100$ or 100.000$ for an
ethernet mac? If every IP like the listed examples is about 10.000$ or
more I don't have to think about it any longer. If someone has examples,
it would be nice.

Frank

http://www.opencores.com have some for free.

Cheers,
JonB

 

[Antti Lukats]

"Frank Benoit" <nospam@xyz.com> wrote in message
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Hi

Can anyone please give me an rough overview about prices of IPs for the
Xilinx Virtex II Pro? i.e.
10/100 Ethernet

is free on opencores

CAN-Controller

is free on opencores

LIN - Local Interconnect Network Bus Controller (iLIN)

LIN is basically simple UART protocol can be handled with UART + SW or even
software only

Do I have to pay for each sold piece or one time or one time per project?

beware the "free" is not completly free as it often not complete lacks
documenation and or support

Frank

Antti
http://www.openchip.org

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Frank Benoit wrote:

Hi

Can anyone please give me an rough overview about prices of IPs for the
Xilinx Virtex II Pro? i.e.
10/100 Ethernet
CAN-Controller
LIN - Local Interconnect Network Bus Controller (iLIN)
Do I have to pay for each sold piece or one time or one time per project?

The non public IP cores are targetted at high volume stuff.
So unless you're there, forget them.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[Frank Benoit]

the ethernet ip from opencore is for wishbone. is it possible to connect
it to a powerpc core?

 

[Antti Lukats]

"Frank Benoit" <nospam@xyz.com> wrote in message
newsan.2004.06.12.23.17.36.161401@xyz.com...

the ethernet ip from opencore is for wishbone. is it possible to connect
it to a powerpc core?

hm, we have succesfully connected several wishbone peripheral cores to OPB
bus (used in Virtex2Pro PowerPC systems). I havent checked if the ehternet
core requires busmastering or not. Without bus mastering the OPB to wishbone
adaption is fairly simple.

antti
xilinx.openchip.org

 

[Martin Thompson]

"Antti Lukats" <antti@case2000.com> writes:

LIN is basically simple UART protocol can be handled with UART + SW or even
software only

Erm, not if you want to master the sync break right... 13 consecutive low
bits doesn't come out of the UARTs I've used.

I've seen it work with SW only, but it's not spec compliant...

Cheers,
Martin

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TRW Conekt, Solihull, UK
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