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14 years ago

Is it possible to DIY a SATA/USB/DDR controller

To all FPGA Gurus, Is it possible to study and design the controller for SATA2/3, USB2/3 and DDR2/3 in 2 months, without using the extremely costly IP core with time limit? I just realised t...
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14 years ago

IP is expensive since a lot of effort goes into creating it. SATA and SDRAM controllers are not easy to create from scratch. USB it depends what you are interfacing with. Some external USB chips provide you a simple bidirectional bus that wouldn't take long to make a controller on the FPGA side to talk to it. If you are looking to create a USB host then that's a different story.