fpga board ?

[Finlay Dobbie]

(BTW as an aside, you don't need a Spartan-3, the Spartan-IIE device
has about 15k gates)


On 19/12/06, János <janos.lobb at yale.edu> wrote:
> "Work with a Mac" meant a Mac with a PowerPc chip for me at this
> moment.  /an iBook or iMac/.  That is why I am interested in an
> external device that can be addressed either via USB or Firewire.

Xilinx has a "Platform Cable USB" that you can use for programming the
device in development.  I believe third parties have Spartan-based
boards with integrated USB chips, but you'll have to go do your own
research on that.

> "Work with the Mac" means also that the language tools for hardware
> design can be used from the Mac either natively or via a softPC/
> VirtualPC like situation.  I do not mind if something works just via
> Classic either, that is if it is only OS 9, although I would prefer
> an OSX solution.

As I said, pretty much all of the CAD/EDA tools are Windows-based. You
may have some luck with Virtual PC, but in my experience it was always
unusably slow.

 -- Finlay