Glenn Jones wrote:
which of these system would you recommend digilent http://www.digilentinc.com/info/S3Board.cfm >Xilinx 3 Starter kit http://www.xilinx.com/products/spartan3/s3boards.htm <======== The two boards above look identical - are they?
That is the same board. For the same $99 Xilinx will give you the free set of development tools. Or get the same board from Difilent and download the tools from the Xilix web site.
For an extra $50 I could wait for this one to be available in the fall as I have some other projects on the go right now>http://www.xilinx.com/products/spartan3e/s3eboards.htm
Yes, looks cool. With 32 Mbit Parallel Flash there is no need for a Compact Flash to hold the hard drive image. More RAM doesn't buy much for A2. With on-board ethernet you can emulate an Apple ethernet card. For example if you want to run Contiki.
-Alex.