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Offline ciVicTopic starter

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Could this be used for Minimig?
« on: October 16, 2013, 09:52:30 AM »
Hi all,

I've found this, a FPGA extension for Raspberry PI:

http://www.bugblat.com/products/pif/

I'm not a FPGA expert, so maybe an experienced person could say if it would be possible to use it for the minimig core?
 

Offline freqmax

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Re: Could this be used for Minimig?
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2013, 11:08:36 AM »
Depends on this:
"plenty of on-chip 4-input LUTs - the pif-1200 has 1280, the pif-7000 has 6864"
 

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Re: Could this be used for Minimig?
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2013, 02:15:48 PM »
ciVic if you mean when used with the raspberry pi then why bother? I'm sure emulation on the Pi would be a better solution.

As a starting point for a new minimig board it looks rather limited in the IO department and by the time you add all the components you need to a daughter board it's not any cheaper.
 

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Re: Could this be used for Minimig?
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2013, 10:11:38 PM »
It doesn't have any RAM either.
Obsolescence is futile. You will be emulated. - Amigus of Borg