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From: climber.tim on 6 May 2008 17:04 Hello. We need a boards with 4 or 6 or even 8 identical FPGA chips installed, each one should be mid-range Altera Cyclone II or III, let say, each chip should contain between 30.000 LEs and 60.000 LEs. It can be Xilinx Spartan, but board should contain 4-6 or 8 Spartan chips with roughly same logic capacity. Board should contain power supply, some flash ROM and RAM for Altera Nios or Xilinx MicroBlaze, FPGA configuration loader and USB port. A lot of various FPGA kits are offered via Internet, but often they are contain only one FPGA chip. Because we demand only small quantity of such boards (maybe 10 or even 20, but unlikely more), we cannot order our own boards, so we're looking for ready-made ones, with reasonable cost. It is also interesting, if it is possible to order some ready-made boards with the same specifications but for PCIe instead of USB, but also with reasonable cost. I'll be thankful if someone can drop me an URL to something we're looking for: climber.tim(a)gmail.com
From: austin on 6 May 2008 17:11 Why? What is it you are trying to show, prove, or do? It would be nice to know. Austin
From: Nathan Bialke on 6 May 2008 17:26 Pico Computing (http://www.picocomputing.com/) has done some interesting work with multi-FPGA kits. At a Xilinx X-Tech event, they had a PCIe board with 15 S35000s. I have never done business with them and can't make any other comments about their quality. - Nathan
From: Gavin Scott on 6 May 2008 18:00 climber.tim(a)gmail.com wrote: > It can be Xilinx Spartan, but board should contain 4-6 or 8 Spartan > chips with roughly same logic capacity. Um, what would be wrong with 4 Spartan starter kits and some duct tape? G.
From: John Adair on 7 May 2008 04:03
Not quite a single board solution but we can offer a stacked array of boards over a number of our products that fit together nicely. Have a look here http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/moelbryn/overcoat.html. This is a build to order option and can be done easily on our Broaddown2, Raggedstone1, Drigmorn1, Broaddown4 boards. It may also be possibly to stack our Darnaw1 module (PGA) but we have never bought the socket for this as yet so that would need to be confirmed. Also worth considering is our Hollybush1 product - http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/moelbryn/hollybush1.html. Again a stacking approach but this time the standard PCI104 connectior can be used in a dedicated(non standard) fashion to interconnect the stack. All the pins on this interface can be any direction as defined by FPGA build and used as you like. Our OVERCOAT technique can also be used on this board to add 116 I/O on top of the PCI104 interface if more interconnect is needed. All that would be needed would be a power card to power the array and we are working on that and I think there are some products out there already for that. John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. On 6 May, 22:04, climber....(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hello. > > We need a boards with 4 or 6 or even 8 identical FPGA chips installed, > each one should be mid-range Altera Cyclone II or III, let say, each > chip should contain between 30.000 LEs and 60.000 LEs. > It can be Xilinx Spartan, but board should contain 4-6 or 8 Spartan > chips with roughly same logic capacity. > Board should contain power supply, some flash ROM and RAM for Altera > Nios or Xilinx MicroBlaze, FPGA configuration loader and USB port. > A lot of various FPGA kits are offered via Internet, but often they > are contain only one FPGA chip. > Because we demand only small quantity of such boards (maybe 10 or even > 20, but unlikely more), we cannot order our own boards, so we're > looking for ready-made ones, with reasonable cost. > It is also interesting, if it is possible to order some ready-made > boards with the same specifications but for PCIe instead of USB, but > also with reasonable cost. > I'll be thankful if someone can drop me an URL to something we're > looking for: climber....(a)gmail.com |