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15 years ago

Novice needs info

I've been asked to purchase some FPGA boards. I'm not exactly sure what they are and what I need. The only information I have is epm9560arc-240-10 v1.1 Can someone give me some direction? I'm administrative support at a hospital and we normally get our parts from Japan, but they've been marking it up 1000% so we've decided to source it elsewhere. Normally, we just get the parts and our techs install it, but with the FPGA boards it seems more complicated.

Do these FPGA boards come programed or do we need to program it? Any help would be appreciated.

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    15 years ago

    We think the supplier is NDR in Japan, but I'm almost certain they get their boards from somewhere else then NDR programs it. I have not been successful in getting NDR to repond to my requests for quotes. We wanted to bypass our vendor and get it directly from them, but they are unresponsive. Any other ideas?

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    15 years ago

    I'm afraid you are stuck with your current supplier. Even if this were a standard board you still need the configuration for the programmable chip, which has probably been specifically designed for your application. The reference you gave is the one from the chip itself and doesn't give more information about the full board.

    Who is the supplier of this board?