gEDA-dev: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

[John Doty]

On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:39 PM, John Griessen wrote:

> John Doty wrote:
>
>> An Actel Fusion mixed signal FPGA in a dongle would be an awfully
>> flexible gadget. But how much work is needed for gEDA to be able to
>> develop the firmware? I haven't tried FPGA design.
>
> It's a problem to get icarus ready to work with some FPGAs,
> but Actel is more cooperative than others and Steve says it's  
> possible...
>
> Remember that mention of a FPSLIC  FPGA by Atmel used
> to synthesize logic like self-timed ring oscillators
> using icarus verilog?  That one is a good candidate by way of
> having an open start well done already.  Not sure if it is
> space-reliable enough though.

Depends on mission, environment, and sponsor. I've flown quite a few  
industrial grade antifuse Actels in space without any trouble.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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jpd at noqsi.com