FPGA Central

Hi

finally -- first units of U2TOOL-ICE are shipped to the clients (and
are arrived at destination also), general availability will soon
follow too, specifications:

small white box with short USB cable attached, inside is FT245RQ and
SMD module with Silicon Blue ice65L04 module that does configure
itself from 2M byte dataflash. FPGA does configure with "bootstrap"
configuration that creates Flash access interface to the configuration
flash. As ice65L04 support 4 configurations to be choosen using
"warmboot" primitive then 3 configurations can be selected by the
user.

as "user IO" there is one RJ45 jack with 3.3V supplied from USB
(separate LDO) and 6 I/O pins. Two LEDs (red and blue) can also be
controlled by the FPGA.

The gadget can be used as complete FPGA development system, as it can
reload new FPGA hardware configurations without any external
programming cables.

It can also be configured as versatile USB - Interface implementing
various functions in the FPGA

All schematic and protocol interface documentation will be released.
Also many FPGA design will be available with full sources, and ready
to download image files.

I hope that the general availability will be soon too, ah yes, not to
forget, the all gadget is designed by Antti with the "low cost" in
mind, so we doing all we can from the manufacturers side to offer this
gadget at very low end user price.

Ok, I can say it out also now, we are targetting MSRP (manufacturers
suggested retail price) of

$39

the inside pictures of the gadget are in some last brain issues if
someone wants to see what really is inside..

Antti

PS due to server crash and hdd clean sweep all my domains are
currently either not accessible or show template pages, nothing
serious, all we up and running with new content soon!