[Fpga-synth] Inexpensive Spartan 3A development board

[Eric Brombaugh]

I haven't seen the "Behind the Wheel" presentation, but since the  
board has standard Digilent 6-pin connectors on it, I wouldn't be  
surprised if they are talking about the stuff on this page:

http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?Nav1=Products&Nav2=Peripheral&Cat=Peripheral

FWIW, I ordered mine on 5-5-08 and the order status was due to ship on  
6-20-08. On 6-20-08 the promised ship data changed to 7-31-08. I  
wonder how Paul got in line ahead of me... :)

I had a meeting with an Avnet sales guy a few weeks back on an  
unrelated topic, but when I mentioned this he nodded his head and said  
that a lot of their demo boards are subsidized by the silicon vendors  
to get the attention of the design community. Every now and then they  
hit a nerve and the boards are so popular that they can't keep up with  
the orders. I suspect that's what's going on here. I hope they  
actually ship these.

Eric

On Jun 21, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Nathan Wooster wrote:

> I watched their "Behind the Wheel" presentation, and they mention  
> DAC and ADC expansion boards.  Has anybody found these for sale on  
> their website?
>
> Nathan
>
>
> --- On Sun, 5/4/08, Gwenhwyfaer <gwenhwyfaer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Gwenhwyfaer <gwenhwyfaer at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Fpga-synth] Inexpensive Spartan 3A development board
>> To: "The making of synthesizers in FPGAs." <fpga-synth at rubidium.dyndns.org 
>> >
>> Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 11:16 AM
>> On 04/05/2008, Eric Brombaugh
>> <ebrombaugh at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Looks like a nifty little unit - definitely a great
>> price for what you get,
>>> and having a low-end analog MCU on board would make
>> for some very
>>> interesting expansion possibilities.
>>
>> Certainly appears to be popular; I can't get the AVnet
>> webstore to
>> even respond to me, let alone accept an order... :(
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