Hi,
don't be misleaded by the SATA port on the LOGI-pi, its just a connector for LVDS signals, but we don't have an IP (in the FPGA) that is capable of handling a SATA disk. Someone may work on this at some point, but the SPI bandwidth with the FPGA is limited to 3.8MB/s (rather slow for a SATA disk...).
Regards,
Jonathan Piat
LOGI-team
Not sure its a good idea when you want to get into the game of co-design : dula core CPU + ManyCore + FPGA... lets learn things one step at a time if you don't want to end up with nice piece of equipment taking dust in your drawer.
Hi,
the Xilinx Web edition toolchain (free of charge) supports the spartan6 LX9. Synthesis time is a bit longer than when you own an "expensive" license but the LX9 is a small FPGA so you'll never wait too long to get the synthesis done.
Regards,
Jonathan Piat
LOGI-team
The LOGI-bone is compatible with beaglebone and beaglebone-black. On the Beaglebone-black it will de-activate the eMMC because the lines are shared with the GPMC.
Hi,
i think that you don't see the point of our product. The LOGI don't pretend to be the most powerful most versatile product on earth. We just propose a board to learn co-design with simple starting point. If you give a zedboard or a sockit to a beginner its just like throwing him a brick in the face. What the beaglebone and raspberry-pi propose is a system of capes/extension boards that you can had as you progress or to match your needs. With these two platform you benefit from a much wider community support that the zeboard/sockit and much better support from a wide community of beginners and expert (when zedboard sockit are just expert platforms).
Moreover the price you show are for Xilinx/Altera subsidized platforms, if you have a look at open-hardware platforms, our price-point is no higher.
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Hi, don't be misleaded by the SATA port on the LOGI-pi, its just a connector for LVDS signals, but we don't have an IP (in the FPGA) that is capable of handling a SATA disk. Someone may work on this at some point, but the SPI bandwidth with the FPGA is limited to 3.8MB/s (rather slow for a SATA disk ...).
Regards,
Jonathan Piat
LOGI-team
Not sure its a good idea when you want to get into the game of co-design : dula core CPU + ManyCore + FPGA ... lets learn things one step at a time if you don't want to end up with nice piece of equipment taking dust in your drawer.
Hi, the Xilinx Web edition toolchain (free of charge) supports the spartan6 LX9. Synthesis time is a bit longer than when you own an "expensive" license but the LX9 is a small FPGA so you'll never wait too long to get the synthesis done. Regards, Jonathan Piat LOGI-team
The LOGI-bone is compatible with beaglebone and beaglebone-black. On the Beaglebone-black it will de-activate the eMMC because the lines are shared with the GPMC.
Hi, i think that you don't see the point of our product. The LOGI don't pretend to be the most powerful most versatile product on earth. We just propose a board to learn co-design with simple starting point. If you give a zedboard or a sockit to a beginner its just like throwing him a brick in the face. What the beaglebone and raspberry-pi propose is a system of capes/extension boards that you can had as you progress or to match your needs. With these two platform you benefit from a much wider community support that the zeboard/sockit and much better support from a wide community of beginners and expert (when zedboard sockit are just expert platforms). Moreover the price you show are for Xilinx/Altera subsidized platforms, if you have a look at open-hardware platforms, our price-point is no higher.