HI all, I want to make my first sbc with an fpga. I have used many microcontroller / cpu to make my system. But now fpga is more easy to get and the price is constantly drop. SO i check many opencores IPCORE and openrisk seam to be the best bet to my project. Here what i need: Running 'C' code. PCMCIA extension for CARD BUS (32bit) for 802.11a/b/g card. 1 or 2 serial interface. 1 ethernet 10/100 1 decoder manchester bi-phase. I want to use this on a xilinx spartan 3 chip. Like is my first sbc with a fpga i would like to know if this is realistic ? i'm a newbi on fpga, i would like to know if i have something to know or book to buy before starting on this project. I have a developement kit from xilinx with a spartant-3 on it. regards Jonathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.opencores.org/forums/openrisc/attachments/20050128/2ae4d569/attachment.htm

no one can give me is impression on this one ? regards Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Dumaresq To: List about OpenRISC project Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 1:46 PM Subject: [openrisc] Project idea ??? HI all, I want to make my first sbc with an fpga. I have used many microcontroller / cpu to make my system. But now fpga is more easy to get and the price is constantly drop. SO i check many opencores IPCORE and openrisk seam to be the best bet to my project. Here what i need: Running 'C' code. PCMCIA extension for CARD BUS (32bit) for 802.11a/b/g card. 1 or 2 serial interface. 1 ethernet 10/100 1 decoder manchester bi-phase. I want to use this on a xilinx spartan 3 chip. Like is my first sbc with a fpga i would like to know if this is realistic ? i'm a newbi on fpga, i would like to know if i have something to know or book to buy before starting on this project. I have a developement kit from xilinx with a spartant-3 on it. regards Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/openrisc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.opencores.org/forums/openrisc/attachments/20050201/78ec0cbe/attachment.htm

well, i have an answer almoast about every one of your requerments... 1. About the C code, I would prefer to use VHDL, although in Spartan 3 it doesn't matter, besides the final optimization (I used only VHDL with my FPGA's). 2. I know there is a transceiver for PCMCIA Interface (like PCI). I know there's a ready code supplied by the company for basic features. 3. You should Define your own protocol (I2C, RS232\422, exc.) and build an VHDL module (or C), it's not hard and it has been done. 4. buy a transceiver for the protocol, and learn how to use it (design C/VHDL code). you should ask for a PC driver when Purchasing the chip. 5. you can use a codec chip, or design a codec module (this is not confidential, so i can send you an VHDL source code), and purchase a "bi-phase TTL" chip. Good Luck! --- Jonathan Dumaresq jdumaresq@cimeq.qc.ca> wrote:
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