Lattice Breakout Boards

[Gabor]

I often see people, especially hobbyists looking for inexpensive
boards with a lot of non-dedicated I/O. These new boards from
Lattice are pretty basic (no on-board RAM) but have a lot of
break-out pins for projects that just need a lot of I/O on
0.1" centers for prototyping.

Usually Lattice releases boards like this at a "kicker" price
and then quietly raises the price later, so you may want
to grab one while it's still $29.99

MachXO 2280 Breakout Board Evaluation Kit:

http://www.latticesemi.com/products/developmenthardware/breakoutboardevalkits.cfm

-- Gabor

PS - I'm not connected to Lattice in any way. Just saw this on
an e-mail and thought it might be of interest.

 

[Jim Granville]

On Apr 26, 12:45 am, Gabor <ga...@szakacs.invalid> wrote:

I often see people, especially hobbyists looking for inexpensive
boards with a lot of non-dedicated I/O.  These new boards from
Lattice are pretty basic (no on-board RAM) but have a lot of
break-out pins for projects that just need a lot of I/O on
0.1" centers for prototyping.

Usually Lattice releases boards like this at a "kicker" price
and then quietly raises the price later, so you may want
to grab one while it's still $29.99

MachXO 2280 Breakout Board Evaluation Kit:

http://www.latticesemi.com/products/developmenthardware/breakoutboard...

-- Gabor

PS - I'm not connected to Lattice in any way.  Just saw this on
an e-mail and thought it might be of interest.

Or, you could wait for the MachXO2 breakout
- and I see they now have this real, at $29.

http://www.latticesemi.com/products/developmenthardware/developmentkits/machxo2picokit.cfm

-jg

 

[Nico Coesel]

Gabor <gabor@szakacs.invalid> wrote:

I often see people, especially hobbyists looking for inexpensive
boards with a lot of non-dedicated I/O. These new boards from
Lattice are pretty basic (no on-board RAM) but have a lot of
break-out pins for projects that just need a lot of I/O on
0.1" centers for prototyping.

Usually Lattice releases boards like this at a "kicker" price
and then quietly raises the price later, so you may want
to grab one while it's still $29.99

MachXO 2280 Breakout Board Evaluation Kit:

http://www.latticesemi.com/products/developmenthardware/breakoutboardevalkits.cfm

-- Gabor

PS - I'm not connected to Lattice in any way. Just saw this on
an e-mail and thought it might be of interest.

Looks nice. I have another CRT to LCD screen conversion project coming
up.
Any word on the software provided by Lattice? The last time I
attempted to use their software must be about 15 years ago. Synario
Abel HDL IIRC. OTOH maybe I just stick with Xilinx.

--
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
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[rickman]

On Apr 25, 7:44 pm, n...@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote:

Gabor <ga...@szakacs.invalid> wrote:
I often see people, especially hobbyists looking for inexpensive
boards with a lot of non-dedicated I/O.  These new boards from
Lattice are pretty basic (no on-board RAM) but have a lot of
break-out pins for projects that just need a lot of I/O on
0.1" centers for prototyping.

Usually Lattice releases boards like this at a "kicker" price
and then quietly raises the price later, so you may want
to grab one while it's still $29.99

MachXO 2280 Breakout Board Evaluation Kit:

http://www.latticesemi.com/products/developmenthardware/breakoutboard...

-- Gabor

PS - I'm not connected to Lattice in any way.  Just saw this on
an e-mail and thought it might be of interest.

Looks nice. I have another CRT to LCD screen conversion project coming
up.
Any word on the software provided by Lattice? The last time I
attempted to use their software must be about 15 years ago. Synario
Abel HDL IIRC. OTOH maybe I just stick with Xilinx.

I use their software in a design I have in production and I don't find
any issues with it really. I'm still using a two year old copy and
they have updated to the later rev of VHDL which I don't have. The
synthesis tool is Synplify and the simulator is Aldec ActiveHDL. I
ordered the software with Modelsim and before they shipped it their
agreement for Modelsim ran out and they switched to Aldec. I about
threw a fit because I had the impression ActiveHDL was an inferior
product and they did a bait and switch on me. But once I calmed down
and used the SW it was pretty good. In fact, I have less trouble with
ActiveHDL than I did with Modelsim. Modelsim had a memory leak or
something that would crash it after some hours of being up. That was
what, 2002 or so? I assume they eventually fixed that, no?

Rick

 

[scrts]

"Gabor" <gabor@szakacs.invalid> wrote in message
news:ip3qdf$62j$1@dont-email.me...

MachXO 2280 Breakout Board Evaluation Kit:

http://www.latticesemi.com/products/developmenthardware/breakoutboardevalkits.cfm

I am about to place an order on 99$ Versa kit. What do You think about that?

 

[Christopher Felton]

<snip>

ActiveHDL than I did with Modelsim. Modelsim had a memory leak or
something that would crash it after some hours of being up. That was
what, 2002 or so? I assume they eventually fixed that, no?

Rick

I don't know if it has been fixed? I currently have a similar issue
with SE-64bit it gobbles up > 10GB of RAM memory and brings our system
to its knees. But I am also using some VPI modules that I need to
double check, MTI might get lucky and it could be another issue.

Chris

 

[Anssi Saari]

Jim Granville <j.m.granville@gmail.com> writes:

Or, you could wait for the MachXO2 breakout
- and I see they now have this real, at $29.

http://www.latticesemi.com/products/developmenthardware/developmentkits/machxo2picokit.cfm

Interesting offering from Lattice again. Too bad the price is quite
different from $29 for those of us on the wrong side of the pond...