Flash card interface is a small cup of tea...

Kelvin



"John Williams" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:c7ujfo$shq$[email protected]..
> Hi Iwo,
>
> Iwo Mergler wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a CF FPGA prototyping card. Do you know
> > of such a beast?
> >
> > The closest I could find so far is the Wildcard, combined
> > with a CF to PCMCIA adapter.
>
> I don't know of any other cards, but some second hand comments about the
> Wildcard:
>
> Someone I spoke to recently was complaining bitterly that the WildCard's
> communication interface between the FPGA and the PCMCIA bus is extremely
> narrow and slow, basically he was forced to do single-byte programmed
> reads/writes across that interface. Yuck.
>
> So, it seems to make the idea of using the Wildcard as a computational
> accelerator/coprocessor pretty useless - you just re-invent the
> bus-bound architecture...
>
> It may just be a problem with the host drivers, rather than the WildCard
> architecture itself, I'm not sure. If anyone from Annapolis is reading
> this it would be interesting to get clarification.
>
> Regards,
>
> John