FPGA + TVP70025i Board

[Test01]

I am looking for an affordable FPGA development board with TVP70025I
Board. I am assuming that the board can take in VGA input and then
pass the digitized data to FPGA. Is there such a board?

Thanks.

 

[John Adair]

To start with some defination of affordable would be useful. A student
affordable budget is much different to that of say a millionaire.

I have not seen a board with this chip available but someone in the
group may know of one that I don't. There isn't a big choice in this
area generally from what I have seen but I will say that could offer
this as a service but I'm not sure it that counts as affordable.
Typically we might charge GBP Ł500 / USD $800 to produce a custom
module that fits one of our simple DIL Headers and fits many of our
standard development boards and modules at this sort of technology
level can be designed and manufactured by my team in a few days if
that is necessary but more typically we turn these sorts of things in
2-4 weeks.. Our next newsletter will be talking more about this for
people that get that.

Another option some people use is to take some thing like a standard
develpoment board for the TVP70025I produced by TI themselves and hand
wire it to a standard development board. In this case it's not a
really cheap as the TI board is about $400 from what I can see.

If you really want to be cheap then you might be worth getting a free,
or low cost, CAD package like say Eagle and producing a simple PCB
design yourself. You might have a big learning curve on this and there
can be large costs if you are not careful but there are a number of
manufacturers aimed at prototype/ hobby markets. It might be worth
looking up some of the groups more aimed at this sort of thing for
better advice if this approach interests you.

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd.

On Sep 25, 9:57 pm, Test01 <cpan...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I am looking for an affordable FPGA development board with TVP70025I
Board.  I am assuming that the board can take in VGA input and then
pass the digitized data to FPGA.  Is there such a board?

Thanks.

 

[scrts]

"Test01" <cpandya@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I am looking for an affordable FPGA development board with TVP70025I
Board. I am assuming that the board can take in VGA input and then
pass the digitized data to FPGA. Is there such a board?

This board has video input and RGB/DVI output:
http://www.bitec.ltd.uk/hsmc_quad_video.html