Hello,
> 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.
I believe there was a communication problem, let me clarify. The TS-7800
doesn't have a CF card, but you are correct the SD card interface was
implemented using the proprietary spec from the SD association. This has
been discussed on this list in the past. I would suggest referring to
past threads for more information on this topic. Although the end result
is Technologic Systems does not release the FPGA HDL code for the SD
interface or the driver. The TS-7800 is designed so that the FPGA can be
user-programmable although an engineer has not yet implemented this
feature yet.
> 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...
I apologize, I understand your frustration. I can offer you a full
refund if you would like, or you can call in and speak to someone in
management as I can guarantee you this will help speed up an engineer
being assigned implement an open core and user space tool to reprogram
the FPGA. Regardless I will let management know several customers are
upset regarding the lack of an open core project.
> --- In "David Farrell" <> 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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