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18 years ago

Disappointed with Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit

I'm sure nobody cares, but I just wanted to express my disappointment with the long awaited Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit. I was naively hoping for something as general purpose and good valu...
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18 years ago

Fair concern. I think part of the problem with these boards is no matter whats on them, your always short one IO or one memory of having the perfect platform. If you need additional IO I think the idea is to rely on the HSMC expansion ports, since there are two of them.

If your looking for video stuff like you mentioned, try Bitec. They have a quadchannel video card and a DVI card. Total, you can get 8 composite inputs, 1 VGA out, 1 DVI out plus 1 more DVI in out pair. Thats a lot of video =).

http://www.bitec.ltd.uk/products_fpga.html

Additionally, I did confirm that the DDR2 memory is separable from a 64 bit bus, to two 32 bit buses, which I think is helpful for video applications.