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SparkFun XMOS dev-board reviewed
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:46 am
by jason
"To me the XMOS approach is very appealing for various reasons, one being that XMOS makes their IP (core code) freely available (open source) while the FPGA manufacturers attempt to make a lot of money with their IP, so they let you test their IP for free (with stringent restrictions and limitations in many cases because they don’t want you to use the IP on their competitors products)"
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Re: SparkFun XMOS dev-board reviewed
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:10 pm
by octal
This was an old discussion ... 2009 :mrgreen:
Anyway, Sparkfun corrected their board since then (by simply removing the usart connection and components). I received the sparkfun board yesturday (bought on ebay), it's fine, but the regulator becomes extremely hot even when powered by a 4,5V power supply. I also checked the schematics and the board, it's a pitty that it has no onboard bridge to protect polarity inversion on the power supply socket. !
Re: SparkFun XMOS dev-board reviewed
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:19 pm
by jason
Oops, my bad, my eyes did not see that light grey text in the article containing the date! Google decided to present it to me today as a new alert!
Still thanks for the follow up :-)