I wish they brought out the PCI-express lane, then you could
bridge it with a product like mesanet sells. BTW mesa also has
PC104 fpga boards if you want to put your own on the 7800.
The Kurobox uses the same CPU and does bring out the PCI express but
this is not OEM type stuff.
I do appreciate the introduction of the TS-7800 at the price they sell
it. Given this I have to forgive some over-optimistic bullets on flyers.
David.
--- In "malnatiantoine" <>
wrote:
>
> Here is what we can find on their web site :
>
> The default TS-7800 FPGA load provides a standard PC/104 bus on the
> 104-pin connectors, maintaining compatibility with our other ARM SBCs
> and wide range of PC/104 peripheral boards. In addition, Technologic
> Systems will make available bitstreams for GPIO and PCI bus
functionality
>
> I was told in march that the fpga load with PCI bus functionality will
> never be released, unless a customer would be willing to pay for it.
> They also said the linux utility that would allow us to program the
> fpga of the 7800 would be available in a couple more weeks. Again that
> was in march...
>
>
>
> --- In "vanlines7" <vanlines7@> wrote:
> >
> > I just talked to tech support today and they said that the FPGA on the
> > TS-7800 is not really meant to be "user-programmable", due to some
> > proprietary license for the CF card on the board or something of the
> > sort. He also said they did not have any estimate about a future date
> > in which they would support that FPGA to be user-programmable and that
> > I could either pay them $500-$600 to make me a custom core, or switch
> > to the TS-7300 which has more FPGA support. I can't tell you how many
> > times I saw the words "USER-PROGRAMMABLE FPGA" in the TS-7800's
> > documentation. That was half the reason I bought eight of them.
> > Needless to say, I am perturbed with this company...
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In "David Farrell" <davidjf2001@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Same for me.. I would like to add quadrature decoder, a timestamp
> > > capture on serial start bit, and pass through (pipe) from one serial
> > > port to another. I don't see fpga source anywhere.
> > >
> > > David.
> > >
> > > --- In Jeff Weaver <chiotlune@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Any news on the open core release for TS-7800? I am
interested in
> > > > accessing the FPGA on the TS-7800 for some custom circuitry.
> > > >
> > > > I don't know how much is left after I instantiate the PC104
> > interface
> > > > -- any estimates from the TS side on how much resources that
> requires?
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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