Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-04-05 Thread rickman
On 4/5/2011 7:46 PM, John Griessen wrote: On 04/05/2011 09:04 AM, Patrick Doyle wrote: Hi Rick, The GA144 sounds quite interesting for a very specific application that may be coming down the pike pretty soon, but I don't have any good killer app ideas for it. On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:47 A

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-04-05 Thread Dave McGuire
On 4/5/11 9:47 AM, rickman wrote: I also have an interest in testing the Green Arrays GA144 multiprocessor. This device has 144 processors running at 666 MIPS each consuming less than a Watt with all running full bore. They are async processors and stop on a dime when waiting for input dropping p

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-04-05 Thread Patrick Doyle
Hi Rick, I'm still collecting information. So far, the Balloon board sounds the most like what I need: a currently shipping and supported processor + FPGA board. But the "currently shipping" part is negotiable, as it will be at least a month or two before I can do anything at all with the board (

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-04-05 Thread rickman
On 3/26/2011 8:50 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote: Hi Folks, I'm looking for a US distributor for a Balloon Board (http://www.balloonboard.org/) or it's equivalent -- perhaps one of you may have designed and sell your own equivalent. Basically, I'm looking for a standalone board with a processor (with i

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-04-02 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Dave McGuire writes: > On 3/27/11 6:05 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: >> I am designing a lot of boards with an LPC2141 ARM7, Altera 3c25, USB >> client, RS232, SPI, uSD. No ram, no Linux, just the builtin flash and >> RAM of the ARM and FPGA, and 1MByte SPI flash. The frontend is fitted >> with a

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-04-02 Thread Dave McGuire
On 3/27/11 6:05 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: I am designing a lot of boards with an LPC2141 ARM7, Altera 3c25, USB client, RS232, SPI, uSD. No ram, no Linux, just the builtin flash and RAM of the ARM and FPGA, and 1MByte SPI flash. The frontend is fitted with a variable number of ADCs of various

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-03-28 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote: > Hi Folks, > I'm looking for a US distributor for a Balloon Board > (http://www.balloonboard.org/) or it's equivalent There is the Begal Board decedent Crane Board: http://designsomething.org/craneboard/ Might not have the FPGA stuff you'd

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-03-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 20:50 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: > Hi Folks, > I'm looking for a US distributor for a Balloon Board > (http://www.balloonboard.org/) or it's equivalent -- perhaps one of > you may have designed and sell your own equivalent. Basically, I'm > looking for a standalone board wit

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-03-27 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Patrick Doyle writes: > Hi Folks, > I'm looking for a US distributor for a Balloon Board > (http://www.balloonboard.org/) or it's equivalent -- perhaps one of > you may have designed and sell your own equivalent. Basically, I'm > looking for a standalone board with a processor (with it's associ

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-03-26 Thread Larry Doolittle
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:50:36PM -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: > I'm looking for a US distributor for a Balloon Board Kind of orthogonal question, how about the MilkyMist One? http://www.milkymist.org/mmone.html It doesn't have a separate processor chip, they implement their own processor in the

gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-03-26 Thread Patrick Doyle
Hi Folks, I'm looking for a US distributor for a Balloon Board (http://www.balloonboard.org/) or it's equivalent -- perhaps one of you may have designed and sell your own equivalent. Basically, I'm looking for a standalone board with a processor (with it's associated flash & SDRAM) and an FPGA. I