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Hi everybody,

I'm currently working on a demonstration project of a lightweight vehicle.
We would like to include a large FPGA to do some control and signal
processing. This would ideally be a totally contained development board,
that could be wired into some kind of bus. (Avoiding using a heavy
backplane) Or a dual processing system with a conventional processor and
FPGA on the same embedded card.

Unfortunately we're trouble identifiying a suitable device. There appears to
be many PCI/VME ready devices, but few that can be used standalone (Attached
to just communications and power!)

Does anybody know if there are suitable devices commercialy available? Could
you point me in the right direction please?

Also is there any information available on similar projects. (Where an FPGA
has been used as the controler for a vehicle)
 
Check out http://www.stratforddigital.ca/products/sputnik for a stand-alone Spartan IIe board up to 300K. Not sure if this is large enough for your application.

As application examples I don't have any of those.

brif<b.ford@lboro.ac.uk> 4/21/2004 11:16:30 AM
Hi everybody,
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I'm currently working on a demonstration project of a lightweight vehicle.
We would like to include a large FPGA to do some control and signal
processing. This would ideally be a totally contained development board,
that could be wired into some kind of bus. (Avoiding using a heavy
backplane) Or a dual processing system with a conventional processor and
FPGA on the same embedded card.

Does anybody know if there are suitable devices commercialy available? Could
you point me in the right direction please?

Also is there any information available on similar projects. (Where an FPGA
has been used as the controler for a vehicle)
 
Memec offers a fair number of inexpensive evaluation boards that provide
circuit boards with FPGAs with on-board communication interfaces like
USB and RS232 and generous expansion connectors. Here's a link to a
development kit list and to an example:

http://legacy.memec.com/devkits/americas.shtml

http://www.insight.na.memec.com/Memec/iplanet/link1/Spartan3LC_3.pdf

NPE offers a rather dense controller board that combines a Spartan II
FPGA with a PowerPC, many analog inputs, a few analog outputs, can a CAN
communications port. Dunno about pricing though:

http://www.npe-inc.com/npe565.htm
 
There are about 40 different development boards listed at
http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/kit-dev_platforms.jsp

The Microtronix Cyclone board is targeted at industrial / automotive,
and sounds like it might have the kind of communication you want --
USB, RS-232, RS-485, Ethernet, etc. It's got a Cyclone C20 on it,
which is pretty big (20,000 logic cells), but still not that
expensive.

If you need bigger than that, there are larger Stratix devices on
other boards, all the way up to multi-S80 devices (at significantly
higher prices of course).

Vaughn

If your budget won't bear that kind of expense, the
Hi everybody,

I'm currently working on a demonstration project of a lightweight vehicle.
We would like to include a large FPGA to do some control and signal
processing. This would ideally be a totally contained development board,
that could be wired into some kind of bus. (Avoiding using a heavy
backplane) Or a dual processing system with a conventional processor and
FPGA on the same embedded card.

Unfortunately we're trouble identifiying a suitable device. There appears to
be many PCI/VME ready devices, but few that can be used standalone (Attached
to just communications and power!)

Does anybody know if there are suitable devices commercialy available? Could
you point me in the right direction please?

Also is there any information available on similar projects. (Where an FPGA
has been used as the controler for a vehicle)
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Hi.. <BR>
I want to ask a question. <p>is there a FPGA which have low number of I/O pin but high capacity of CLB resources?
 
Our new Broaddown2 board is PCI based but is capable of stand alone
operation. Production boards should be available to customer around the end
of June. Full details of this board will appear on our website at official
launch in 3 weeks time. If you would like some more details in advance
please contact me offline. General contact details are available on our
website.

We can also produce custom derivative boards from this design in 4-6 weeks
to your requirements should the standard board not satisfy.

--
John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd.
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk

This message is the personal opinion of the sender and not that necessarily
that of Enterpoint Ltd.. Readers should make their own evaluation of the
facts. No responsibility for error or inaccuracy is accepted.

"brif" &lt;b.ford@lboro.ac.uk&gt; wrote in message
news:c6638f$64s$1@sun-cc204.lut.ac.uk...
Hi everybody,

I'm currently working on a demonstration project of a lightweight vehicle.
We would like to include a large FPGA to do some control and signal
processing. This would ideally be a totally contained development board,
that could be wired into some kind of bus. (Avoiding using a heavy
backplane) Or a dual processing system with a conventional processor and
FPGA on the same embedded card.

Unfortunately we're trouble identifiying a suitable device. There appears
to
be many PCI/VME ready devices, but few that can be used standalone
(Attached
to just communications and power!)

Does anybody know if there are suitable devices commercialy available?
Could
you point me in the right direction please?

Also is there any information available on similar projects. (Where an
FPGA
has been used as the controler for a vehicle)
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check out at Xilinx.com , online store, there are many proto type
boards.
if you are from university and yours is research project, Xilinx is
Kind enough to donate you not only the boards but all the software
tools.
- one who's been benefitted by XUP
 
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:16:30 +0100, "brif" &lt;b.ford@lboro.ac.uk&gt; wrote:
Hi everybody,

I'm currently working on a demonstration project of a lightweight vehicle.
We would like to include a large FPGA to do some control and signal
processing. This would ideally be a totally contained development board,
that could be wired into some kind of bus. (Avoiding using a heavy
backplane) Or a dual processing system with a conventional processor and
FPGA on the same embedded card.
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A fairly complete list of available boards is at:

http://www.fpga-faq.com/FPGA_Boards.shtml


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Philip Freidin
philip.freidin@fpga-faq.com
Host for WWW.FPGA-FAQ.COM
 
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