Allison: 2910c version of z80

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sun May 6 12:15:39 2001

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>


>3000A and 3100 series. My old XACT tools unfortunately don't support it
either,
>however, as the tools I bought only went through the 2K series. I've
been
>unable to find the dongle for that, however, though I don't miss it.


The copy of XACT and earlier tools I can use for the 2064s runs fine on
dos
wothout a dongle.

>The OS under which the XILINX tools seem to run best, at least according
to
>their tech support folks, is Win98, though they claim it runs just as
well under
>NT4. I see essentially no difference, myself. There are new tools for
LINUX,


I've run Synario under W95 and WinNT4 without problems.

>by the way, though I don't know how well they work or are supported at
XILINX.
>They are VERY generous with support, however, once you've bought into
their
>tools, even though I only bought the cheapest set.


Yes, they are good but not so cheap.

>I'd not be afraid to give the SPARTAN series a try for building an
experimental
>version of a '70's-'80's generation CPU. They are relatively (choke)
>inexpensive and available in versions with sufficient on-board RAM that
you
>might not need the higher pin counts required to interface external
memory.
>Unfortunately, the high-pin-count parts are hard to prototype.


The real problem is making/buying a protobaord for the high pin count,
that and time to actually do it. I know there are plenty of parts out
ther that
can and many different tools.

Allison
Received on Sun May 06 2001 - 12:15:39 BST