Macnica Odyssey Max10 board for P1V emulations

Tubular

Now that OzPropDev has a 4 cog P1V running in a Max10 FPGA, I'm going to source some of these Macnica boards:-

http://store.macnica-na.com/product-p/odyssey-max10-kit.htm

These have two SIL headers that make them a bit easier to breadboard. There's a sensor board that goes on top. Its not clear whether pulse rate and blood oximetry are read by that board or whether this happens over bluetooth from an external device.

We could of course design our own plug in boards, but the module includes some buttons and leds and switches to get started, which is nice.

There's a half price intro special that may run out soon. That makes them $45 each. If anyone in Australia wants to join in let me know asap

jmg

Tubular wrote: »

.., I'm going to source some of these Macnica boards:-

I don't see explicit mention of which MAX10 that uses, and it seems to not have a USB loader.?
The $30 BeMicro MAX10 has a FT2232H FT240 + MAX V 5M80ZE64 CPLD on board.

Macnica boards use a largish 32bit MCU (EFM32GG395) for Loader.

ozpropdev

The Max10 device is a 10M08SAU169C8GES

Tubular

Its using the 10M08SAU169, which are 11x11mm 0.8mm ball pitch and a bit cheaper, but only span up to 10M16 and not beyond. Lots of docs (schematics, boms etc) by clicking through to more info:-
http://www.m-pression.com/solutions/boards/odyssey-fpga

I have a terasic jtag which I trust will program the thing

Regarding the price, as far as I'm concerned all these are cheap for what they do, so we're "collecting the set". If parallax come out with something we'll collect that too.

jmg

Tubular wrote: »

.. Lots of docs (schematics, boms etc) by clicking through to more info:-
http://www.m-pression.com/solutions/boards/odyssey-fpga
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Yes, I got to that page, and was expecting something as fundamentally important as which Max 10 , to not be buried in some file that needs downloading.....

Tubular

You're forgetting they're a "solution provider". Obfuscate what and how, focus on the solution...

Tubular

Something I didn't realize earlier, but the 0.6" pinout of these $45 odysseys are compatible with the Arduino Nanos, which (remarkably) are similar to basic stamp pinout (pins 4..15 on each side). 
A prop plug should work on pins 12-15.