Re: Augh! WTF 'megabaud'?

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:55:30 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

> We're planning a product with maybe 10 mbits of Xilinx configuration
> data, 15 seconds or so to configure, so the hardware SPI thing starts
> to look interesting there.
>
> Hey, if you had an fpga that was partially configurable, you could do
> a sort of bootstrap operation, serially load a small block that lets
> you parallel-load the rest.

Well, I've still got custody of my client's Xilinx development board,
but the project has gone micro - PIC16F627A, and I've downloaded MPLAB,
which is also way cool.

But I look at that Xilinx IDE, and all of the libraries, and I salivate.
You can do _ANYTHING_ with that chip! The development board ships with
an 8-bit Johnson Counter already programmed into it. Chasing LEDs don't
photograph well. :-)
file:/home/richgrise/Pictures/100_fuji/dscf0307.jpg - no flash
file:/home/richgrise/Pictures/100_fuji/dscf0308.jpg - with flash; you
can just barely tell that the four lower LEDs are lit. :-)

Cheers!
Rich

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