Re: Carte Blanche Reservations

[AlexFreed <alex.freed.007@gmail.com>]

>
> Doesn't the potential of having two different sized CB's in the wild
> raise the issue of some configurations not working on the smaller
> cards ?
>

Yes and no. The same bit stream won't work on both, but it only
take a minute to generate a second version for a bigger part.

Actually the main advantage of the bigger FPGA is for your own
development work. The extra logic and BRAM is very handy for a built-
in
logic analyzer that doesn't get into production chips. For most other
Apple related applications the "small" part is in fact quite big. My
default
VGA and MMC/SD interface hardly take 20% of the resources. A full
Apple
including the soft CPU only needs about half.

BTW the default configuration is not only open source but is built
with free
tools - Xilinx "Webpack" so you can always rebuild your own
configuration.

-Alex.