Re: [openrisc] orp

["Damon Brantley" <brantley@mcloudteleco.com>]

So is this 1000-1500 dollars something you would be willing to pay out of 
your own pocket or are you looking for donations. :)

If finding a stable supply of boards with the desired features is a
problem, it might be worthwhile 
to create an open design as a joint effort. I am not sure what the interest
in something like
that would be.

I personally have been giving some thought to making my own board with the 
features you have mentioned. My confidence has been raised somewhat by
designing a 
smaller board recently.

I just recently got in some 4 layer boards I designed with an
8Mx8 sdram and 2Mx8 flash to use with my Digilent board. 
I have just starting testing, but the sdram is responding. I am still working 
on the flash. The goal ultimately being to run ucLinux on a Spartan IIe
with 300k gates.

I have seen mention that Xilinx will include support for 1M+ gates on their
WebPack 
for the Spartan III. It is not there yet, so I am not sure how accurate
that is. 
Of course the Spartan3 I think is only available in sample quantities at
this point anyway. 

I guess the point being, if someone like Digilent or Burched does not come
out with 
their own 1M+ gate boards that have the ability to run ucLinux without
having to design 
additional boards, I will probably start work on my own board. I think a
low cost board 
capable of running ucLinux with or1200 on an FPGA and some real peripherals
is possible. 
However I probably will not seriously pursue this for at least 6 months.
How fast are you needing a board? :)


At 07:05 PM 6/26/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm thinking of $1500 (what can you get for $1000?).
>
>And 'lost cost' should read 'low cost'.
>
>regards,
>Damjan
>
>
>> > - lost cost
>> 
>> I think you have 2 price ranges in the world of development boards:
>> +/- $1000
>> +/- $1500
>> 
>> which are you aiming for?
>
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