[ts-7000] Very interested in 7800; How much support for the FPGA ?

["jsteele914" <>]

Hi, I just learned about TS and the 7800, and I'm very interested in
this board.  One feature I especially like is the FPGA on the PCI bus.
 I have experience with Xilinx FPGAs (Spartan IIIe) and Verilog, as
well as embedded linux/Arm systems.  I peeked at the Lattice site and
see that they offer a free version of their software (ispLever
Starter) which suppoorts the ECP2 FPGA on the 7800.

My main question is : What is the status of the HDL code for the stock
FPGA configurations from TS : is it  open-source by any chance ?

Also : Is there any problem with using some of the Lattice FPGA pins
as LVDS inputs ?  I know the chip has this ability; I'm just wondering
if anything about the 7800 board might make this problematic....


Thanks for any info,

Jeff




 
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