[Coco] CoCo3 FPGA project analog boards

[Dave Philipsen]

Dave Philipsen

> On May 10, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> I think that is correct.  Maybe Gary can verify.
> 
> Digikey has about 70 of DE1s in stock for $156.25 + shipping.  Which
> I believe beats Terasic’s price when you factor in their somewhat expensive shipping.
> <http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/terasic-inc/P0528/P0528-ND/1833602 <http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/terasic-inc/P0528/P0528-ND/1833602>>
> 
> Of course, Dave Philipsen may be able to supply one as well.
> 

I don't currently have any DE1s but I do have a couple of DE2s right now.  There is already a port of CoCo3GA to the DE2 (with 512k/1 meg) and I expect that we'll get support for the analog board for it in the near future.

Dave


> Tim Linder is helping out with getting top plates made.  These should turn out as
> really nice looking finished packages!  :)
> 
> - Ed
> 
> 
>> On May 10, 2016, at 2:31 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Ed,
>> 
>> Those boards look nice :D
>> 
>> Got a question though.  If we were to buy one of the brand new Altera DE-1
>> boards can we just disable the onboard RAM to get around the timing issue
>> with the RAM on the new boards and just entirely use the RAM off of this
>> add-on board?
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> |David Ladd|
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> I finally received test PCBs back for the CoCo3 FPGA Analog board. I'll
>>> definitely be using the faster shipping option on the main run.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, these are coming together very nicely. I some of the remaining
>>> parts on the way to assemble one of these. If the testing goes well,
>>> there will be just a few small tweaks on positioning a couple of items,
>>> and the main run can be ordered.
>>> 
>>> I'm missing a couple of standoffs that are on the way, but you can get the
>>> idea of how this will look from the pics.
>>> 
>>> After the run is completed, I think it would be nice to have some acrylic
>>> top sheets cut for our DE-1s. :)
>>> 
>>> Pics…
>>> <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1sgl615FlGndV9TUElDaXN3WTA>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - Ed
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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