[Coco] Cheap alternative to the DE-1?

[tim franklinlabs.com]

   LOL Thanks.

     On October 28, 2015 at 12:07 PM Salvador Garcia
     <ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net> wrote:
     That link was a monster! Here is a shorter one that takes you to the
     same item:
     http://www.ebay.com/itm/272020523309
     Salvador
     -----Original Message-----
     From: tim franklinlabs.com <tim at franklinlabs.com>
     To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
     Sent: Wed, Oct 28, 2015 7:23 am
     Subject: [Coco] Cheap alternative to the DE-1?
     I ran across this while surfing E-Pray this morning. It looks
     interesting.
     For those, like me, who are interested in FPGA's, this
     $70.00 unit seems to
     have everything needed to port Gary Beckers
     CoCoFPGA to it:
     [1]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Altera-Cyclone-NIOS-II-SOPC-FPGA-Developm
     ent
     -Learning-Board-EP2C8Q208C8N-LCD1602/272020523309?_trksid=p2054897.c
     100
     204.m3164&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D2
     014
     0407115239%26meid%3D8d211755ec994eff8913982e805be0c8%26pid%3D100204%
     26r
     k%3D12%26rkt%3D21%26sd%3D261661704545
     It uses a smaller FPGA so there may be
     a limit here. I'm not sure how
     many LE's Gary's code uses.
     This board:
     EP2C8 8,256 LE's
     DE-1: EP2C20 18,752 LE's
     Also, there are
     only 2 PLL's and I'm not sure if both are connected to
     clocks. I bought a
     small FPGA that had 4 clock inputs with 2 PLL's. The
     moron who designed the
     board connected the clock to one of the CLK pins
     not connected to the
     PLL's.
     This board: 2 PLL's This assumes there are clocks connected to
     both.
     DE-1: 4 PLL's DE-1 uses only 3 (one connected to the
     external clock)
     Since Gary posted an "almost" up to date project of his 3.0
     FPGA code,
     i went ahead and bought one to see if I can port it. It comes
     from
     China, so it wont arrive for a while (slow boat from china joke in
     real
     life). I'll keep everyone posted.
     References
     1.
     http://www.ebay.com/itm/Altera-Cyclone-NIOS-II-SOPC-FPGA-Development
     -Learning-Board-EP2C8Q208C8N-LCD1602/272020523309?_trksid=p2054897.c
     100204.m3164&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%
     3D20140407115239%26meid%3D8d211755ec994eff8913982e805be0c8%26pid%3D1
     00204%26rk%3D12%26rkt%3D21%26sd%3D261661704545
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