Date   : Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:44:34 +1100
From   : msmcdoug@... (Mark McDougall)
Subject: BBC FPGA Boots to BASIC... almost...

John Kortink wrote:

> Putting it mildly. I've one or two very cheap development
> boards that are much, much more powerful than that. I
> suppose the one you're using is too.

I'm using proprietary hardware with an EP2C35... it's actually stackable and 
in theory I could have 4-6 EP2C35 devices running together, each with 128MB 
SDRAM, 1MB SRAM... so yeah, a tad more powerful than a 1K100... ;)

> And then there's the documentation. Or rather lack of it.
> That killed the whole idea of doing something with it, at
> least it did for me.

In the last few weeks there's been an effort to rectify this very problem, 
with the introduction of the C-one wiki... see how that pans out...

> http://www.acube-systems.biz/eng/index.php

Interesting indeed...

> Will be different if we wait 10 years, I suppose. ;-)

Heh, perhaps. My colleague & I have had designs in mind for 4 or 5 years 
now... still waiting for the technology to be cost-effective for the 
hobbyist/niche market... as you say, who's going to pay USD$400 for a 
BBC-on-a-chip???

Regards,

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