Re: An FPGA card for Apple

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Jan 3, 5:43 pm, Mark McDougall <msmcd...@no.spam.iinet> wrote:
> alex.freed....@gmail.com wrote:
> > Unfortunately the PLL needs a 10 MHz minimum input clock and only
> > 7 MHz is available on the Apple bus. Using an external (to Apple)
> > clock
> > makes it less appealing to our sense of harmony :)
>
> Cyclone 3 can take down to 5MHz! ;)

Personally I'm pleased with the choice - Quartus is only available on
Windows to non paying customers and 2k5 is a lot more than I'm
prepared to pay for 'fun'

> > And you can always use Altium Designer as a vendor neutral tool.
>
> [SHUDDER]

And again Windows specific :-( I'm at least hopeful that someday the
gEDA tools will do everything I want. It'd be lovely to one day have
Mac support too. Their toolchains seem to be primarily built in Java,
so it can't be *that* hard.

Matt