[Fpga-synth] Inexpensive development environment

[narendra sisodiya]

Thanks a lot for sharing this info !!

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Slightly OT -
>
> A few weeks back I picked up an ASUS EEE PC 900A a local big-box electronic
> store: 1.6GHz Intel Atom, 1GB DRAM, 4GB SDD, WiFi, Xandros Linux. $200 (!).
> Xandros Linux was poorly configured and had to go, but Ubuntu eee (Now
> called Easy Peasy) works nicely.
>
> I downloaded Xilinx ISE Webpack 10.1.03 for Linux onto a desktop machine,
> stripped out the documentation, Coregen, VHDL (not my language) and a lot of
> the unused FPGA/CPLD families. This brought the total install size down to
> 1.9GB - sufficiently small to fit onto a 2GB SD card which fits in an
> available slot on the EEE. I also grabbed a tarball of the arm-elf-gcc
> toolchain and installed that onto the main 4GB SDD. For board design I've
> installed free gEDA & PCB tools. For ARM download/debug I've got the Olimex
> JTAG-USB-TINY and openocd. All that's missing is an open-source FPGA
> download capability.
>
> I've now got a portable full-up ARM + FPGA + board design environment for a
> total investment of less than $250.
>
> Beat that!
>
> Eric
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