[Coco] Coco proto board

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Sat Sep 15 10:01:54 EDT 2007


Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:

> Well if you are not wedded to Altera, Xilinx do 84pin PLCC versions of 
> the XC9572 and 95108, both of which are also 5V, with these you have 
> enough lines to completely decode any address, which means that you can 
> put RAM in the $C000 reigon, you'd of course need to use DSD to disable 
> the onboard device selection too, and of course this should only be used 
> in map type 0 :)

Unfortunately, I am kinda 'wedded' to Altera - several years of experience 
and not a single Xilinx design. :( Perhaps the other way to look at it is an 
opportunity... I actually _do_ have a Xilinx FPGA dev board myself, just 
haven't actually done anything with it yet...

Regards,

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