FPGAS FOR THE PI as well as ‘BONE

We’ve seen FPGA dev boards out the wazoo—even some complying with the present pattern of putting an FPGA as well as an ARM processor on a single board. Take one great concept as well as mix it in with a few million Linux/ARM boards already stacking up on workbenches the world over as well as you get LOGi: an FPGA developed to plug into the Raspberry Pi as well as BeagleBone.

Both the Raspberry Pi as well as BeagleBone versions of the LOGi function a Spartan 6 FPGA with 9152 logic cells, 16 DSP Slices, 576KB of RAM, as well as 96 I/O Pins. There’s likewise 256 MB of SDRAM as well as a SATA connector. The Kickstarter has a few demos for this board, namely a device vision, Bitcoin mining (though don’t expect this board to make return-on-investment with mining), as well as an autonomous car manage demo. The LOGi’s hardware is similar to the Papilio Pro, so prospective jobs may include generating NTSC video, adding a VGA out, as well as a few retrocomputer emulations through OpenCores.

For what this Kickstarter asks for the Pi or ‘Bone version of the LOGi—$89 USD for either—you’ll get a surprisingly capable FPGA dev board that’s a bit less expensive than similar offerings. Sure, you won’t save any type of money purchasing a Pi as well as a LOGi, however if you have a few Raspberries lying about, you might do much worse for a starter FPGA board.

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