[oc] New Spartan II Development Board Coming Out - The best IMHO

["Paul McFeeters" <paul.mcfeeters@ntlworld.com>]

Hi,

just had email from Tony Burch about the new version of his new B5
development board.
You may already know about his existing B3 board
(http://www.burched.com.au/bedspartan2.html)
which IMHO is the best Spartan II development/evaluation board around. The
email was
to inform me that there is a new version coming out, there are some
preliminary details at
http://www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk/logic/burched/fpga_devkit_b5.htm. A
complete
XC2S200-PQ208CES development board (with parallel port programming lead) for
USD $120.
If anybody can beat that I'd be very surprised, there doesn't seem to be any
prices on
the new board yet but I don't expect it to change much. Even the value pack
option
http://www.burched.com.au/b3supervaluepack.html is only USD $230 for
everything (minus PC
power module) which is cheaper than most other FPGA boards. Judging what I
can from the
picture on the website it appears he will still be using the PQ208 II thus
keeping the
132 I/O pin limit (accessible via 0.1" IDC headers).

The new board is priced at USD $149 which is great value IMHO. I'm ordering
two of the new
ones for myself as soon as they are available which the webpage says is this
Friday
(16th November 2001).

Paul McFeeters



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