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Title: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: m3x on March 25, 2012, 01:30:21 PM

Bassano del Grappa (Italy) - 24 March 2012

ACube Systems is happy to release a package to explore and enhance the capabilities of the LatticeXP FPGA available on the Sam440ep mini-itx and flex-atx boards.

With the manual, examples and tools of the package it's possible to implement new functionalities into the FPGA, to further strengthen your AmigaOS experience on your Sam440ep board.

The package contains:

- VHDL source code (released under GPL) of the firmware currently used on Sam440ep boards
- the original bitstream installed at the factory (to restore the original firmware)
- a porting of the VME12 utility which can reprogram, via the JTAG interface, the FPGA on the fly under AmigaOS 4.1 (*)

(*) a simple hardware modification and a cable are required

Download the Sam440ep_LatticeXP package here (https://acube-systemsbiz.serversicuro.it/download/sam440ep_latticexp_1.0.lha) or from OS4Depot.

Title: Re: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: Tripitaka on March 25, 2012, 04:24:16 PM

Wonderful news. I look forward to seeing how users utilise the FPGA.

Title: Re: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: jorkany on March 25, 2012, 06:46:23 PM

Quote from: Tripitaka;685319

Wonderful news. I look forward to seeing how users utilise the FPGA.

Given that nothing was holding them back before, I hope you aren't holding your breath.

Nice of Acube to provide this package though.

Title: Re: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: Templario on March 25, 2012, 06:48:48 PM

Thanks m3x, and how are the sound drivers for Sam460?

Title: Re: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: KimmoK on March 25, 2012, 08:18:18 PM

@jorkany

???
The documentation was not available before this date, how could anyone have any chance to program it before?

The chip is soldered on board, there's no way to program it without this package.
(+ one needs to know how to restore it if something goes wrong, it's possible now)

Title: Re: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: Tripitaka on March 25, 2012, 09:02:16 PM

Quote from: KimmoK;685362

@jorkany

???
The documentation was not available before this date, how could anyone have any chance to program it before?

The chip is soldered on board, there's no way to program it without this package.
(+ one needs to know how to restore it if something goes wrong, it's possible now)

Jorkany is just a little bit anti OS4 it seems.

Title: Re: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: Yasu on March 25, 2012, 10:33:32 PM

Excuse me, but what does it do?

Title: Re: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: Templario on March 26, 2012, 10:36:35 PM

Quote from: Yasu;685383

Excuse me, but what does it do?

Yes, it is a good question. what?

Title: Re: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: haywirepc on March 27, 2012, 01:31:49 AM

It lets them justify charging you 1,000$ for a motherboard that should be 100$

:laugh1::

Title: Re: Sam440ep_LatticeXP package available
Post by: Iggy on March 27, 2012, 02:44:10 AM

Quote from: haywirepc;685565

It lets them justify charging you 1,000$ for a motherboard that should be 100$

:laugh1::

They do cost slightly less then that.

The 460 does cost about that much though...

Its not the price that bugs me, its that underpowered Applied Micro processor.