UPDATE: HSMC General Purpose Interface Board, example FPGA design and Excel interface

At the end of November we released the HSMC GPIB, this provides much
needed functionality to any Altera dev kit with an HSMC connector
including....

8 * 10 bit ADC Inputs
8 * 10 bit DAC Outputs
2 * General Purpose 8 bit Digital IO ports
3 * RS232 Interfaces
2 * RS484 Interfaces
3 * One Wire Interfaces (2 of these can be combined for 5V I2C communications, all 3 can be used as
jumper selection inputs)
Micro SD card socket (SPI lines connected)
Header for an FTDI Vinculum VDIP1 or pin compatible NSD FT245R USB slave board, this can also be
used as a 16 bit general purpose digital IO header.
8 * LEDs
2 * SPI Interfaces


We have since released the USB interface board that used the FT245R use with the GPIB.

A user guide was initially posted, this has been followed with an example
FPGA project with driver modules including the FT245R interface.

This is probably a useful example design for anyone starting in FPGA design.

An small example Excel app has been posted, this demonstrates how the
board (or anything else) can easily be driven from Excel via a PC's serial port.

Details at...

http://www.nialstewartdevelopments.co.uk/products.htm


We have a USB interface board based on the new FTDI FT2232H device in the pipeline. This
will plug in the GPIB USB socket and should allow data transfers at 25M Byte/second.


Nial Stewart


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