Plz tell me the chipest FPGA bord for sap 8 bit processor.... Project of Ahmed shahe in same website...
This is my b.tech project.... So help.....

No one could answer you if you wrote a question like that.

Hi, I understand your question to be asking for the "cheapest" FPGA board for the Simple As Possible, SAP 8 bit processor as found here on the "same website," ie OpenCores:

http://opencores.org/project,sap

The "cheapest" FPGA board in the sense of money and *time* spent would be the same board as used by Ahmed Shahein, the author of the SAP project, the Xilinx Spartan 3e starter kit, as stated in his README file.

Otherwise, the cheapest board would be any board with any FPGA on it. The SAP design is so tiny that it will fit on any FPGA board you can find.

The money that you save in purchasing the different, but cheaper board will frequently be offset by the time you spend learning about the different board. That is to say, if the author of the project gives you setups for a particular board, you will have to port those setups to the different but cheaper board, and this will cost you not money, but it will cost you in time spent.

However, the cheapest cost in total money spent, is to download and use the free Xilinx Webpack FPGA tools and simulator. You do not need to buy an FPGA board to learn the first and most fundamental steps in using FPGA's. More important than running a design on an FPGA board is learing how to simulate the design and write a proper testbench. You can do all that with the free tools and simulators.

(Altera FPGA, MicroSemi FPGA, and Xilinx FPGA all have similar free toolsets.)

I hope this helps you,
Good Luck in b.tech,
Cheers, Richard.

thanx...

>You can do all that with the free tools and simulators.
Is it possible to simulate video output with Xilinx software? For example I find, that vga output can be simulated with this: http://vgasim.sourceforge.net/. But it is written
>VgaSim works with VHDL abd VeriLog simulators such as ModelSim and GHDL porting the output simulation file as screens handled by a VGA Monitor.
So, there is no dinamic simulation, and not sure is it xilinx software produce same format of files, as ModelSim and GHDL.