Douglas Bouttell http://douglasbouttell.co.uk Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:35:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Rhino Board Alpha and Peripheral Board V1 http://douglasbouttell.co.uk/2012/01/10/rhino-board-alpha-and-peripheral-board-v1/ http://douglasbouttell.co.uk/2012/01/10/rhino-board-alpha-and-peripheral-board-v1/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:21:18 +0000 Douglas http://douglasbouttell.co.uk/?p=6 Continue reading →]]> An idea I have been working on.  You see a lot of *duino boards for almost every platform and using lots of chips (ARM, ATMEL, PIC, MSP) but there are only a few FPGA boards (like the Papilio One).

Rhino Board

Rhino Board Alpha

The Rhino Board uses a Spartan-3E XC3S250E (250k gates) or XC3S500E (500k gates) and provides four 32-bit banks as well as the most useful pins broken out.  This board contains an onboard JTAG programmer as well as a space for a SPI Flash chip.

This Board is 102mm x 78mm (4″ x 3.1″) and expansion boards can be created using EAGLE free.

Peripheral Board

Peripheral Board version 1

A simple and easy to use board which gives several useful interfaces for beginners and education purposes:

  • VGA
  • PS/2
  • Mono PWM Audio
  • Buzzer
  • Four character 7-segment display
  • 4×4 keypad
  • 8 LEDs
  • 8 Slide switches

The peripheral board plugs on top of the main board, much like the Arduino style of devices, but all ports are protoboard compatible allowing for rapid development.

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