Hello,
> I understand if they cannot release the source because it is licensed
> from someone else.
Technologic Systems had to sign an NDA to get access to the SD card
specification. The NDA restricts Technologic System from releasing the
HDL code/device driver for the SD card interface.
> At a minimum, this means having access to the schematics and a linux
> utility to reprogram the fpga given a bit file.
A user space program has not yet been written to load a bitstream. The
schematic for the TS-7800 is available on the TS-7800 web page.
http://www.embeddedarm.com/documentation/ts-7800-schematic.pdf
> Some release notes and sample designs for the board interface logic
> (they must own that unless they outsourced the entire design) would be
> appreciated too :-)
All hardware and software design was done by Technologic Systems.
> On Jul-1-08, at 3:25 PM, 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" <> 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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Best Regards,
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