[Arm-netbook] Interesting chip the LPC1343

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:02 AM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 14:13 +0000, joem wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 10:00 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:06 AM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I ordered this FPGA dev system:
>> > >
>> > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1575992013/logi-fpga-development-board-for-raspberry-pi-beagl
>> > >
>> > > [Already over subscribed by x5 and still 24 days to go :)  ]
>> > >
>> > > I found it has a $2 LPC1343 ARM cortex chip
>> >
>> > http://www.microbuilder.eu/Projects/LPC1343ReferenceDesign/
>> >
>> > sold by adafruit.  good find, joe.  will look at the datasheet, see
>> > what else it can do.
>>
>>
>> The FPGA logi boards are not too bad an idea for EOMAs as well.
>> It can add an FPGA board option more cheaply than other solutions.
>>
>> The FPGA programmer is an LPC1343 built into their board which manages
>> the communication between the raspberry pi and the FPGA.
>> From their links, circuit diagrams and a lot of software is available
>> that allows drag and drop programming of the binary files
>> generated by the free Linux capable (6GB) Xilinx VHDL compiler
>> from the raspberry to the FPGA.
>>
>> But so far, not been able to locate what software goes
>> into the LPC1343 or whether that software is open sourced.
>>
>> If it is open sourced, then you would be able to modify
>> it to work with EOMA. Then you can drag and drop FPGA
>> files from EOMA into the FPGA.
>>
>> The benefit is that you should be able to make a lot
>> hardware projects work very quickly.
>> E.g. make a 50MHz storage scope - no problem!
>> The EOMA drives LCD and there is several distros already working,
>> so its very quick to knock up something that does
>> the hardware functions in FPGA, and the displaying in EOMA.
>>
>> The FPGA they use is not the fastest in the world - but it works.
>> It is capable of compiling and running a microBlaze CPU
>> which can run Linux. You could also add stuff from
>> opencores.org like low speed ethernet, usb, video controller etc
>> and get it all working very quickly to make your own custom
>> very fast hardware gadgets that money cannot buy, or is
>> too expensive to prototype using individual components.
>>
>
> Looking at their project files in more detail,
> it appears the LPC1343 was on an older mk1 board.
> And I think the programming of the FPGA is direct from raspberry
> through its expansion port. If the interpretation
> is correct, then may be less hardware required to make
> a duplicate.

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