Kamani Development Tools has the ZL4PLD_9572 dev board, which features an onboard voltage regulator and ISP connector. The preassembled board is designed in a 40 pin DIP breadboard compatible form, and sells for €13.36, plus €30 for shipping to EU countries. AWC sells the PBX84 Xilinx Prototyping Board, in several different configurations beginning at $49.95 […]
Tag Archives: CPLD
Free PCB Sunday: CPLD development boards
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. Our PCBs are made through Seeed Studio’s Fusion board service. This week we’re giving away two […]
Week in (p)review: April 01, 2011
Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. This week our favorite project gets a free QFP protoboard. Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: We released XC9572XL and XC2C64A (CoolRunner-II) CPLD development boards USB IR Toy v1 and Web platform v1.1 are back in stock at […]
Re-animating the PDP-11/70 with CPLD, ethernet
J. Peterson updated a PDP-11/70 console with an ethernet controller and a CPLD to control the blinking LEDs: I’ve always missed that visual and tactile aspect of computers that’s been lost since the advent of microprocessors. When a console for a PDP-11/70 came up for sale on Ebay, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to bring […]
Free PCB: CPLD development boards
To celebrate the launch of our new CPLD development boards we’re giving away PCBs. Just ask for a CoolRunner-II or XC9572XL dev-board in the comments, if you have a project in mind we’d like to hear about it too. Assembled CoolRunner-II and XC9572XL development boards are available now for $15.
NEW PROTOTYPE: XC9572XL CPLD development board
Ever get stuck choosing the right logic chip combination or voltage level translator? Give up the hunt and create your own custom logic chip. CPLDs can give you the logic you need, with the pinout you want, while saving board space and board revisions. The Xilinx XC9500XL family has some of the cheapest and readily-available […]
NEW PROTOTYPE: CoolRunner-II CPLD development board
Ever get stuck choosing the right logic chip combination or voltage level translator? Give up the hunt and create your own custom logic chip. CPLDs can give you the logic you need, with the pinout you want, while saving board space and board revisions. The CoolRunner-II XC2C CPLD has two separate banks of pins that […]
Trivia: CPLD on a PDIP?
Atmel produces what are believed to be the only CPLD devices sold in PDIP form: the ATF2500C and ATF750C . These devices are priced at between $5 and $8 at Digikey and Mouser. Programming hardware and software is available from Atmel. Atmel provides free design software known as WinCUPL, which mainly supports programming in the […]
Week in (p)review: February 20, 2011
Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. This week our favorite project gets a free SOIC protoboard. Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: A new firmware and PC application to program CPLDs and FPGAs with the Bus Pirate MOD for the phpBB3 forum stops almost […]
CPLD breakout board PCBs
A box of PCBs just arrived with the new CPLD breakout board designs. The top board is for the XC9500XL family (XC9572XL), the other boards is for a CoolRunner-II (XC2C64A). Check out the quick start guides for these parts. Both boards have all the pins broken out to header, and jumpers for IO voltage selection. […]
PROTOTYPE: XT IDE disk controller with CPLD
We’re releasing a stalled or abandoned prototype every few days while Seeed Studio is on break. We put a lot of work into these projects, but they’re still missing major components and testing. If an abandoned project sparks your interest, we may have PCBs to get you started. The XT-IDE project is a Vintage Computer […]
App note: Interface SDRAM and DDR SRAM with a CPLD
irrenhaus tipped us to demo projects that interface SDRAM and DDR SRAM with CoolRunner-II CPLDs: There is a reference implementation from xilinx how to interface a SDRAM memory from a CoolRunner-II CPLD XAPP394: “Interfacing to Mobile SDRAM with CoolRunner-II CPLDs” and XAPP384: “Interfacing to DDR SDRAM with CoolRunner-II CPLDs”). So my idea was: Why not […]
CPLD development board
voidptr shared a CPLD development board he made a few years ago: i used few times some xilinx xc9572xl with pleasure (and few other sizes). i like the family 5V tolerance, so i can plug that everywhere… Via the forum.
Altera CPLD/FPGA Quartus II design tutorials
If you have an Altera development board, such as the MAX V CPLD board or the UP1, UP2 or DE series of board, Altera has a collection of free video tutorials covering many aspects of CPLD/FPGA circuit design and programming of devices using their Quartus II design software.
Amani CPLD Arduino shield
From the comments on our earlier CPLD post: Programmable logic meets the Arduino. The Amani 64 is a low-cost entry-level CPLD development kit, stackable with the Arduino, other Amanis, and Arduino-compatible shields. The Amani 64 by itself is a capable embedded controller but becomes an even more powerful tool when teamed up with the Arduino […]
Xilinx free FPGA/CPLD design tutorials
The Arduino platform and bare microcontrollers are good ways to get started in developing embedded systems. But the way of the future is clearly CPLD and FPGA architecture. These devices are not simply a new type of chip, but a new and interesting design and development frontier. Their programs are developed using several methods, including […]
Altera intros MAX V CPLD dev kit
Altera has announced the release of their MAX V CPLD line and companion dev kit. Altera’s webcast describes the dev kit and demos a few simple examples. The MAX V family of low cost and low power CPLDs offers density ranging from 40 to 2,210 logic elements (LEs) (32 to 1,700 equivalent macrocells) and up […]
Bus Blaster v2 testing
We’ve just completed verification of the Bus Blaster v2 JTAG debugger. V2 is much more flexible than v1, and uses a programmable logic chip (CPLD) for the buffer. The logic chips in v1 were expensive to source and place, but v2 uses a $1 CPLD with a bunch less pins to solder and inspect. Bus […]
Bus Blaster v2 development
We got a big box of PCBs from Seeed this week. This is an update of the Bus Blaster (in test production now) with a CPLD instead of discrete logic buffer chips. The CPLD is connected to the secondary JTAG B port of the ft2232. This should make it like a mini CPLD development board, […]
Coolrunner-II usage in educational toys
Xilinx outlines how the Coolrunner-II CPLD can be applied in portable educational toy development. Don’t forget our quick start guide for the Coolrunner-II, it explains the bare minimum circuit you need to get started with this chip.