>
> Hello,
>
> Actually, I purchased the ts-7800 for the same reason and was, at the
> time, led to believe (by TS) that I could manipulate the fpga. As it
> turns out, this objective is supposedly still on their to-do list but
> has become a low priority concern. This is what a TS representative
> told me on the phone about 1 month ago. At the same time, I was told
> the ts-7300 could do the job and that the fpga source had been
> released on opencores.org. I bought a ts-7300 and loading a new fpga
> bitstream was not too difficult. Since its all GPL you get hints
> instead of good documentation but it wasn't too bad. See several
> earlier posts for details.
>
> John Sinclair
They also claim "The TS-7800 ... features a 12,000 LUT on-board FPGA
which is user programmable via Linux software and provides extra
peripherals such as 110 GPIO lines, additional serial ports and SD
card sockets."
SYSTEMS, T. (2008) "GETTING STARTED WITH TS-7800."
http://www.embedded arm.com/document ation/ts- 7800-gs-sheet. pdf
well I just wonder where that Linux software is ...
good school not to trust what marketing say but what clients say.