Links Page
- Before designing any circuits for space or high reliability check out the excellent KLABS website
- Looking for a PCB designer in the UK? I would recommend C.I.D. CAD Designs
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VHDL Utilities
- VHDL Preprocessor (use #ifdef #else #endif etc in your VHDL source code)
- VHDL Dependency Sort (sorts VHDL files in the right order)
- Add date string to VHDL file
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Free Processors on the Web
- Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller in verilog
- PacoBlaze, a Verilog clone of the PicoBlaze processor
- Steve Haywood's Raptor-16 microprocessor in VHDL
- Tiny64, small 64bits RISC processor in VHDL
- 6809 processor which runs the Flex Operating System (that brings back memories!)
- The JAM CPU, a 32 bits 5 stage RISC core in VHDL
- Leon Sparc V7/V8 by Gaisler Research
- DragonFly, small risc processor from the Leox team
- 6502 Processor by Bird Computer (Verilog)
- Sparrow2, 32bits RISC processor also by Bird Computer (Verilog)
- STM, 32bits 2-way superscalar RISC processor by Eiki Ito
- Another 6502 Processor this time by Free-IP project
- Popcorn V3, cross between a PIC and an AVR core (Verilog)
- Lots of processors (T80, OpenRISC 1000, AX8, AVR....) can be found on the Opencores website
- 68HC11 processor by Green Mountain Computer Systems
- 8051 Core from Oregano Systems
- Another 8051 core this time by the University of California
- A superscalar version of the DLX processor developed by the University of Darmstadt
- The XiRisc project developed by the University Bologna and Turin
- My own MOVE processor
- PIC16C52 Core by Tom Coonan (Verilog and VHDL)
- Another PIC core by Massimo Conti (in Italian)
- And of course my own Rcore54 PIC core
- CQPIC PIC16F84 in VHDL
- Java Optimised Processor + prototype board
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FPGA Prototype Boards
- Terasic TREX C1, low cost Cyclone board with lots of interfaces.
- KNJN has a wide fariety of low cost boards.
- Small Altera and Xilinx board on the excellent fpga4fun website
- Very nice Cyclone board from Marco Groeneveld
- Excellent NIOS development board from Altera
- Small Actel ProASIC Starter kit, see this page for a small design
- CMOSexod ACEX EP1K100 board ideal for processor development
- APS Virtex/4000 boards
- Burched, Spartan board with some nice plug-on modules
- Inicore, ProASIC board + ARM core
- El Camino, Altera 10K/Cyclone/Stratix boards
- Minford Technology, low cost Altera board
- Trenz Electronic, Spartan-II board + LCD display
- Xess corporation, popular Virtex/XC9500 boards
- Digilent Inc, Spartan/Virtex/XC95 boards
- Jan Pech Open Source Spartan board
- Memec, ProASIC evaluation kit and prototype board
- Leon Virtex Prototype board
- Martin Schoeberl Altera Cyclone board
- A very nice Cyclone board with lots of peripherals
- Small USB 1.1 prototype board, developed by Nial Stewart Development Ltd
- MJL, Low Cost Cyclone board with USB/VGA/PS2/MAC
See FPGA-FAQ website for a more extensive list.
