FPGA Replay Board

[freqmax]

Sam trick possible for the ARM CPU simultainously? (ie without altering physical wires)

[JimS]

I wish someone would make an FPGA thingy that lets you do the logic upload by ethernet(something else?) from your pc.

There are plenty of FPGA development boards that let you load the core over USB from a pc. It's a matter of using a controller cpu with a USB port.

[desantii]

I wish the softcore could be used for an super fast 020 compatible FPGA on an accelerator card for classic Amigas. No need for PPC

[Lord Aga]

We'll get to that one eventually

[NorthWay]

There are plenty of FPGA development boards that let you load the core over USB from a pc. It's a matter of using a controller cpu with a USB port.

Sure, but I'd hope for something high-profile that has readily available designs that work out of the box if/when I find out I have bought an expensive brick coz I'l too lazy to get properly cracking with VHDL.

Any "SD card emulators" that lets you wire a card thing to your PC and let it behave as one?

[billt]

I wish the softcore could be used for an super fast 020 compatible FPGA on an accelerator card for classic Amigas. No need for PPC

Understand that softcore 68k in FPGA will never compete with high-end PPC or ARM or x86. It should be somewhat better than Motorola 040 or 060 in modern FPGAs, but that's the best we'll hope for. Not a 2GHz 680x0.

[billt]

There are plenty of FPGA development boards that let you load the core over USB from a pc. It's a matter of using a controller cpu with a USB port.

Some FPGAs allow you to do partial reconfiguration of then on the fly. Use the PCAP or ICAP interfaces (I think Spartan3 is external so needs kindof connected to itself, Spartan6 has this internal) Make a controller capable of sending a selected reconfig bitstream over that interface and you should be good, and that controller should be able to live inside the FPGA. It's been a while since I've looked into that, but it made sense a few years ago.

I'd imagined a PCI (or Zorro) card that could be various things at different times, pick a partial-bitstream to send to the card and have it reconfigure itself to that. Think hardware codecs for mp3, avi, mpeg2, mpeg4, fivx, etc. that would change out based on what file you were playing. I'm finally very recently learning how to do such things, but not sure what I'll actually end up tinkering with.

http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/caslab/publications/selfReconf_final.pdf
http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/projects/cosrecos/publications/paper/fpt10koch_demo.pdf

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/34524/loading-an-fpga-image-with-selectmap

[JimS]

I'd imagined a PCI (or Zorro) card that could be various things at different times, pick a partial-bitstream to send to the card and have it reconfigure itself to that. Think hardware codecs for mp3, avi, mpeg2, mpeg4, fivx, etc. that would change out based on what file you were playing. I'm finally very recently learning how to do such things, but not sure what I'll actually end up tinkering with.

That sounds interesting... but you're *way* ahead of me. ;-) I just managed to install the Xilinx software and compile an example for the dev board I'm considering. - A LED blinker... the hardware version of "hello world" ;-) I'll have to take a look at opencores.org and see what kind of codecs are there.

[JimS]

Sure, but I'd hope for something high-profile that has readily available designs that work out of the box if/when I find out I have bought an expensive brick coz I'l too lazy to get properly cracking with VHDL.

Altera makes a board the DE2, I believe.. anyway, the OCS version of minimig has been ported to it. Not sure what else. But I think I'll wait for the Replay. Still, the XULA board from XESS is only $55 and has RAM and the USB programming port. Not as expensive a brick. ;-)

[acadiel]

I want one of these... how do I get on the list?

[ravard]

I emailed them through the web site and never heard anything. I hope I am on the list.

[mikej]

I emailed them through the web site and never heard anything. I hope I am on the list.

Email me again with your "ravard" user name, I don't think I received any mail from you.
use the support@fpgaarcade.com email address.

Just sourced some 68060 sockets. They were not easy to get in China!
/Mike

[Dopuser]

Just sourced some 68060 sockets. They were not easy to get in China!
/Mike

But 060 extansion boards are useless without FPGA base board.
Any news appreciated. Are these boards going to the market in the same time?

[ravard]

I emailed you from my ravard email address. Thanks!

Email me again with your "ravard" user name, I don't think I received any mail from you.
use the support@fpgaarcade.com email address.

Just sourced some 68060 sockets. They were not easy to get in China!
/Mike

[Lord Aga]

But 060 extansion boards are useless without FPGA base board.
Any news appreciated. Are these boards going to the market in the same time?

+1
Will there be an online order form ?
Sadly, I cannot buy one if it is only through email and PMs.

[mikej]

+1
Will there be an online order form ?
Sadly, I cannot buy one if it is only through email and PMs.

Yes, the new website will feature on-line ordering.
I am also talking to a number of Amiga distributors.

The fact my day job has gone crazy and I am spending 60% of my time in China has not helped recently. The new core is now working, and we are testing extensively.
I have 40 boards still in stock which are in Stockholm waiting for me to test and ship.
I am taking ~8 weeks off to get this thing done, starting on Monday.

The main board will be production released and be available in the next few weeks.
There were a few problems, but these are resolved now. The daughter board is in final layout stage. There are some design decisions still to be made, but I have sourced all the components for ~15 prototype boards now.

Again, sorry it is taking some time but I have invested a huge amount of time and money in this, and it will happen. It is just too risky to build many 100s of boards before I am 100% happy.

About 20 boards are in the field now, and all working perfectly. Let's keep it that way
/MikeJ
(Shekou, Shenzhen China)