[Fpga-synth] Avnet Spartan-3A FPGA Board

[malik martin]

hmmm
easy portability, Xilinx is growing on me :P


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote:
> I've been playing with an Avnet Spartan-3A (400Kgate) FPGA board, the little $39 one.
>
> I'm porting my PolyDaWG/8 (8 string poly Karplus-Strong string physical model) design to this little board.  So far, it seems to be working.  Basic sound test - it makes noise (the kind it's supposed to)!
>
> The FPGA on this board is about 20% smaller than the one I designed PolyDaWG/8 for, but it compiles correctly, about 60% resource useage.
>
> I was pleasantly suprised at how little modification I had to make to the design for it to play on this board.
>
> -- ScottG
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