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Re: An FPGA card for Apple



On Jan 7, 8:38 am, alex.freed....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 6, 3:51 am, sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Would it be possible for the card to program itself?
> > From the host Apple II is what I'm wondering.
>
> I'm planning that feature. The idea is that while the FPGA is not
> programmed,
> writing to the card's i/o space (DEVSEL) will toggle the JTAG pins,
> Wiggler style.
>
> Somebody will need to port Xilinx's SVF player to Apple and it won't
> be fast. Will
> likely take a minute or more to load the configuration.
>
> -Alex.

_Cool_!

Cheers,
Nick.