Hi
I would add that TS-7300 as a Cyclone 2 from Altera. Altera devices are supported by Quartus software, wich in my opinion, is way better than Lattice and Xilinx's software.
Pierre
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:54:07 +0000
Subject: [ts-7000] Re: ts-7800/ts-7300 and the FPGA
Hi --
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> --- In m("yahoogroups.com","ts-7000");">.com, "zuikway" <tech2@> wrote:
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> > Simply because the 7800 runs 2.6 out of the box, I would recommend it. The main advantage of the ts-7300 is the second ethernet port, but it is an older board and only 2.4 is supported.
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> > WayneS
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> Right, but if I can't get the FPGA to work with my own verilog designs, the 7800 isn't much use to me. I can't see a 500MHz ARM chip being able to sustain video-rate JPEG compression without some extra grunt from the FPGA...
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> Cheers,
> Simon
Please take a look at this thread & wiki that's referred to:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/14172
I'd have to agree with Wayne: even if you don't need the additional power of the marvel chip (yet), you should consider it:
* ARMv5t compared to ARMv4t
* Well supported by debian EABI
* Better support in general linux community for 2.6 vs 2.4, esp wrt kernel modules
Of course you could use a 2.6 kernel & EABI rootfs with the TS-7300, but that may not be how you want to spend thanksgiving :)
regards, ........ Charlie
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