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Time to play with the next part of the ML505 board. The soldered USB chip is provided by Cypress and can be configured as a host and peripheral device. It contains a 16-Bit Risc Core, two serial interface engines (4 USB Ports) and a lot of other useful things (UART, SPI, IDE interface). To provide Continue reading →

Today the a new development board received. It has an Virtex5 FPGA soldered and a lot of I/O connections. It is sold by Digilent Inc. as “Virtex-5 OpenSPARC Evaluation Kit”. Digilent has soldered a Virtex5 110T on the board instead of a Virtex5 50T as Xilinx on the ML505. All other components on the board Continue reading →