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KotobukiKotobuki Posts: 82
edited 2013-12-30 21:12 in General Discussion
Didn't Parallax at one time sell a FPGA game development kit? Not that I need one or want one, but I seem to remember this item.

Best,

Joe

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  • Jen J.Jen J. Posts: 649
    edited 2013-12-30 14:35
    Around 2006 we sold FPGA boards for the Stratix and Cyclone from Altera. They were not game development kits, however.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2013-12-30 15:45
    Message moved to General Discussion
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2013-12-30 15:53
    Kotobuki

    FPGA's started appearing in the 2004 Catalog.

    I was going to put up the catalog, but it is too large. (20 Mb).

    Propeller Game Development Systems are no longer sold on the Parallax site, but are available at:

    http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=33
  • David BetzDavid Betz Posts: 14,519
    edited 2013-12-30 16:04
    Publison wrote: »
    Kotobuki

    FPGA's started appearing in the 2004 Catalog.

    I was going to put up the catalog, but it is too large. (20 Mb).

    Propeller Game Development Systems are no longer sold on the Parallax site, but are available at:

    http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=33
    I was going to point out that Andre' LaMothe has a CPLD development kit (the Mach64) available on xgamestation.com. I think it has game applications.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2013-12-30 16:12
    Thanks for that David.

    I did not know he had the kit:

    http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=40
  • KotobukiKotobuki Posts: 82
    edited 2013-12-30 16:32
    Thank you for the replies. I just thought that I remembered it and was curious. I know nothing about programming FPGAs, and what with starting to learn Propeller, I do not need anything else on my plate.

    I cannot believe that it has been that long ago. I sorta dropped Basic Stamps once I got into 8085 programming, but now I have returned (like a bad dream, I guess) as I have gotten into robots.



    Bet,

    Joe
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,193
    edited 2013-12-30 18:35
    David Betz wrote: »
    I was going to point out that Andre' LaMothe has a CPLD development kit (the Mach64) available on xgamestation.com. I think it has game applications.

    A lower cost, and with much more logic, alternative would be the Lattice LCMXO2-7000HE-B-EVN
  • David BetzDavid Betz Posts: 14,519
    edited 2013-12-30 18:49
    jmg wrote: »
    A lower cost, and with much more logic, alternative would be the Lattice LCMXO2-7000HE-B-EVN
    Yeah, there are lots of better choices now. The Mach64 requires a parallel port to program it and I don't think any modern machines come with them anymore. I bought a Mach64 kit a while back and played with it a bit but I no longer have a machine with a parallel port setup so it's just sitting in a box on my shelf now.
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,193
    edited 2013-12-30 19:30
    David Betz wrote: »
    Yeah, there are lots of better choices now. The Mach64 requires a parallel port to program it and I don't think any modern machines come with them anymore. I bought a Mach64 kit a while back and played with it a bit but I no longer have a machine with a parallel port setup so it's just sitting in a box on my shelf now.

    The Lattice Breakout EVN's all include a USB FT2232H, one channel used for JTAG ISP, and the other channel for user UART

    My only peeve with MachXO2 parts, is Lattice forgot to do 44/48 pin versions!!.
    They have 25 & 32 pin ones, but then jump to 100 pins if you want non-BGA.
  • David BetzDavid Betz Posts: 14,519
    edited 2013-12-30 19:37
    jmg wrote: »
    The Lattice Breakout EVN's all include a USB FT2232H, one channel used for JTAG ISP, and the other channel for user UART

    My only peeve with MachXO2 parts, is Lattice forgot to do 44/48 pin versions!!.
    They have 25 & 32 pin ones, but then jump to 100 pins if you want non-BGA.
    I now have a few FPGA boards including the ones used for Propeller 2 development so I'd probably just use one of those if I wanted to play with programmable logic. I also have a tiny FPGA board called the XuLA that seems like it would be fun to play with.

    http://www.xess.com/shop/product/xula-200/
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,193
    edited 2013-12-30 21:12
    David Betz wrote: »
    I now have a few FPGA boards including the ones used for Propeller 2 development so I'd probably just use one of those if I wanted to play with programmable logic. I also have a tiny FPGA board called the XuLA that seems like it would be fun to play with.

    http://www.xess.com/shop/product/xula-200/

    That's cute, and the SDRAM makes it useful for larger-data apps.
    I see they have a new version

    http://www.xess.com/shop/product/xula2-lx9/

    and a larger one again, that could maybe fit a P2 (were Chip to ever do a Xilinx Build )

    http://www.xess.com/shop/product/xula2-lx25/
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