[time-nuts] counter

[Don Latham]

Aha. good to know. Do you suppose if we put on our thinking caps we can
get the academic pricing? Would whinging or outright begging do it?
:-)
Not that the decks are cleared for this project yet. Heck, my picII's
aren't built or programmed.

Don

John Miles
>
>>
>> With regard to the home-brew counter project, if it still exists:
>>
>> >From friend Marcus Leech on another list:
>>
>> "Don't know whether you've seen these:
>>
>> http://www.knjn.com/ShopBoards_USB2.html
>>
>> $79.95 for the low-end board, which includes and FX2, and a small
>> Cyclone FPGA.  Pretty good
>>   value."
>>
>> Thanks, Marcus. this looks like the very thing, just need the "front
>> end"
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>
> One word of warning, purely hypothetical in nature.  As of a couple of
> years
> ago, rumor had it that the guy who runs knjn.com (also fpga4fun.com) was
> convinced that his customers wouldn't mind running his proprietary .exe to
> configure the board's USB chip and FPGA every time the device boots up.
> Schematics were supposedly also not available at that time.  If these
> rumored policies still prevail, that means you'll have to reverse-engineer
> the board's JTAG-over-USB connections in order to do anything practical
> with
> it.  Oh, and also, if you propose open-sourcing the results of your
> reverse
> engineering effort, he may or may not throw a fit and accuse you of
> setting
> out to wreck his business model.
>
> Not that I have any direct knowledge along these lines. :-P
>
> Suggest going with a Digilent board instead -- the Nexys 2 is a bit more
> expensive but infinitely more 'hacker friendly' than any of the KNJN
> products.  At the very least, you want to contact knjn.com before
> committing
> to their board and ask some very pointed questions about the development
> process and support code.
>
> -- john, KE5FX
>
>
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