MiniMig with AGA

[alexh]

Great work.

Does this mean an FPGA board capable of using an external 68060 present may be available soon? This would be very good news.

[alexh]

An 060 100mhz would be a great option BUT would cost big $$$$

Depends how much the daughter cards are. I've got six 100MHz 060 chips here I bought off eBay in a tray for under $40 a few years ago.

[alexh]

I doubt any of the 68k line is being produced anymore ... So it'll have to be second hand no matter what ... :hammer:

You'd be suprised MC68030 68060

I doubt they have made 68060 chips for many years. The FAB which used to produce them is almost certainly closed or upgraded to a different geometry by now. The 060 was perhaps a military chip which means the vendor has to agree to continue selling them for something like 25 years. At EOL (end of life) Freescale will have done what any normal military vendor does. Make a nice big stock pile of chips and then bump the price to something astronomical so anyone other than Military do not buy/use them.

Should be easy to tell, the date code is written in the corner of the chip. The latest I have are 2001.

[alexh]

How simple was the UAEGFX picasso96 "driver"? Totally alien to a real driver?

[alexh]

Or for a fraction of the price of a MiniMig AGA board (when they arrive) you could get an Indivision AGA, ECS, CD32 (or any other scandoubler). Not to mention having better compatibility in the short term.

I use the indivision but it's a sem half assed solution as the thing even after warming up displays some glitches.

User error when you fitted it? There are now several guides on how to correctly fit the Indivision AGA and make a proper connection especially on difficult HP Lisa chips.

There are too many people using this product without problems for it to be a general problem.

[alexh]

Btw, anyone seen a non-BGA S-ATA to LVTTL/LVDS bridgechip or similar that can interface to an Xilinx Spartan FPGA ..? S-ATA = 1500 Mbit/s ; USB2 = 480 Mbit/s

You mean one of these? This board has two Samsung SATA 3G PHY's (i.e. 3000 Mbit/s too)

They are just PHY so you need your own SATA controller to program into the FPGA.

Choose a newer FPGA and you can use the RocketIO to pretend to be a SATA PHY (i.e. no extra SATA chip)

Economically though, you'd be much better off looking for a microcontroller ASIC which has both of these functions and some sort of DMA capable I/O. There are 10's of them out there.

[alexh]

Whatever happened to the Elbox Dragon Coldfire?

As far as we know it had low compatibility and poor performance with a large percentage of software so they canned it.

[alexh]

Can some kind soul wack the pics into this thread (I'm blocked from http://www.fpgaaracade.com)

Is that the URL you're trying because there is a typo in it.

http://www.fpgaarcade.com/

[alexh]

http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/terms.aspx
$10,000 per year is the killer

I think that is why there is currently a shift in the PC world towards Display Port?